China’s recent ballistic missile test has been likened to a home invasion, leaving people living in Tuvalu, the low-lying Pacific Island closest to where it landed, fearing it would trigger a tsunami, according to a senior official from the nation.

China gave no warning on the early July missile test and didn’t say it would land so close to Tuvalu, Pasuna Tuaga, a senior Tuvalu foreign affairs official, said Friday on the sidelines of a Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Fiji, adding that it is important for the various countries in the region to make clear to Beijing that this was unacceptable.

“Just imagine it yourself, it was like someone invaded your home,” he said. “Just imagine if it was a real one? That’s the same question that we have put to the forum during the official meeting: Do we have to wait until we are hit by a real one and then issue a statement?”