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Post by Andrei Tchentchik on Sept 5, 2019 18:30:42 GMT 2
(.#B.007).- Warning shot from China to the United States, August 6, 2019. Warning shot from China to the United States, August 6, 2019. Wednesday, August 7, 2019. BEIJING - AFP "No missile on our doorstep" China warned the United States yesterday against the deployment of new US armaments in the Asia-Pacific, waving the specter of the Cuban missile crisis during the Cold War. In firm terms, Chinese diplomacy has attacked, without ever naming it, the new head of the Pentagon, Mark Esper, who pronounced Saturday for the deployment "as soon as possible" of new American missiles in Asia, to the edge of a tour in the region. REPRISAL ? "China will not sit back and be forced to retaliate if the United States is to deploy medium-range land-based missiles in this part of the world," warned the director general of the control department. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fu Cong. When questioned, M Fu did not want to specify what retaliatory measures Beijing could take, but assured that "everything is on the table". Already struggling with a trade, technological and monetary war with America's Donald Trump, the Asian giant frequently denounces the US military presence in Asia, relayed by the allies that his Japan and South Korea. The senior Chinese official called on these countries, and also Australia, "to be cautious and not to allow US missile deployment on their soil, as this would not be in the interest of their national security" . "PROVOCATOR" But while experts believe that Washington could deploy its new missiles on his island of Guam in the Pacific, the senior Chinese official warned that it would be equivalent to install them "at the gates of China". "If you put missiles on a piece of land like Guam, it will be perceived as a highly provocative gesture by the United States. It would be very dangerous, "he warned in the direction of the Americans.
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