BEIJING, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) — China urges the United States and Japan to withdraw the Typhon missile system deployed in Japan as quickly as doable because the deployment poses a substantive menace to regional strategic safety, a spokesperson for China’s international ministry mentioned on Tuesday.
Spokesperson Lin Jian informed an everyday news briefing that, no matter China’s grave issues, the United States and Japan insisted on deploying the intermediate-range missile system in Japan beneath the pretext of joint train and coaching.
China is strongly dissatisfied with and resolutely opposes it, Lin mentioned.
He mentioned that the U.S. deployment of the missile system in an Asian nation harms reliable safety pursuits of different international locations, heightens the dangers of an arms race and navy confrontation within the area, and poses a substantive menace to regional strategic safety.
The United States and Japan ought to earnestly respect the safety issues of different international locations, withstand the request of regional international locations, and proper their mistaken practices, Lin mentioned.
Due to its historical past of militarist aggression, Japan’s navy and safety strikes have at all times been considered with nice vigilance by its Asian neighbors and the worldwide neighborhood, the spokesperson added.
China urges Japan to replicate deeply on its historical past of aggression as this 12 months marks the eightieth anniversary of victory within the Chinese People’s War of Resistance in opposition to Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, Lin mentioned.
Japan ought to be cautious in its phrases and deeds within the navy and safety arenas, keep away from aiding villainous acts, and chorus from doing something that may break the belief of its Asian neighbors or undermine regional peace and stability, he mentioned.