{"id":1254,"date":"2016-10-12T23:31:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T23:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2016-10-12T23:33:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T23:33:56","slug":"china-and-russia-close-ranks-against-missile-defence-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2016\/10\/12\/china-and-russia-close-ranks-against-missile-defence-system\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA AND RUSSIA CLOSE RANKS AGAINST U.S MISSILE-DEFENCE SYSTEM"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : South China Morning Post<\/p>\n

Chinese and Russian defence officials on Tuesday blasted Washington\u2019s plans to deploy a missile defence system, saying it would prompt a new arms race.<\/p>\n

The officials said Beijing and Moscow would conduct another joint computer-simulated missile-defence exercise next year in response to proposed US deployments in Northeast Asia and Europe. The two countries held their first such drill in May.<\/p>\n

Chinese deputy chief of the Joint Staff Department, Admiral Sun Jianguo, and Russian Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov spoke to the media on the sidelines of the Xiangshan Forum in Beijing. It is China\u2019s alternative to the annual Asian Security Summit, or Shangri-La Dialogue, in Singapore.<\/p>\n

Senior officers from both countries used the press conference to argue that Beijing and Moscow would be harmed by the American defence systems in Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n

Major General Cai Jun criticised plans by Washington and Seoul to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system in South Korea.<\/p>\n

Cai said the deployment would \u201cfurther strengthen unilateralism and the tendency to use or threaten to use force in the Asia-Pacific region\u201d, forcing other countries to adapt to the risks and thus \u201ccausing a vicious circle\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201c[This] will not only jeopardise regional stability, but also spark an arms race and even expand to outer space.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Lieutenant General Viktor Poznikhir said US plans for missile defence systems in Europe and South Korea were presumptuous and arrogant.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe US uses other countries\u2019 territory to protect its national security, as all [missile defence] systems are controlled by the Pentagon, which has the right to decide who needs to be defended, and when to defend,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhole populations in Europe and Asia-Pacific are becoming a human shield for the unpredictable US missile defence moves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both sides criticised Washington for withdrawing from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in 2002, to allow the US to further develop its ABM systems, and said this decision had forced China and Russia to launch their joint computer-simulated drills.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sino-Russia joint anti-missile drill has enhanced our armies\u2019 joint operational combat capability,\u201d Cai said, adding that both sides were still studying the issue as well as the level of their second round of joint drills.<\/p>\n

Beijing-based analyst Li Jie said China and Russia had been forced to cooperate by aggressive US missile-defence expansion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe deployment of THAAD in South Korea means Washington is going to use China as its front line for its missile defence system,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

US plans for a European missile defence shield would similarly turn Russia\u2019s neighbours, Poland and Romania, into US defence bases, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sourced : South China Morning Post Chinese and Russian defence officials on Tuesday blasted Washington\u2019s plans to deploy a missile defence system, saying it would prompt a new arms race. The officials said Beijing and Moscow would conduct another joint computer-simulated missile-defence exercise next year in response to proposed US deployments in Northeast Asia and… Continue reading CHINA AND RUSSIA CLOSE RANKS AGAINST U.S MISSILE-DEFENCE SYSTEM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80,27,639,855],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-china","tag-russia","tag-south-korea","tag-thaad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}