BEIJING -- China urges the United States and Japan to withdraw the Typhon missile system deployed in Japan as soon as possible as the deployment poses a substantive threat to regional strategic security, a spokesperson for China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Spokesperson Lin Jian told a regular news briefing that, regardless of China's grave concerns, the United States and Japan insisted on deploying the intermediate-range missile system in Japan under the pretext of joint exercise and training.
China is strongly dissatisfied with and resolutely opposes it, Lin said.
He said that the US deployment of the missile system in an Asian country harms legitimate security interests of other countries, heightens the risks of an arms race and military confrontation in the region, and poses a substantive threat to regional strategic security.
The United States and Japan should earnestly respect the security concerns of other countries, face up to the request of regional countries, and correct their wrong practices, Lin said.
