It was not the first time that Beijing called out Manila. It already did so in September when the US deployed the missile system during the Balikatan Exercises between militaries of both sides.
Mao Ning, spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry, said Beijing is opposing the missile system because it supposedly can “carry either conventional or nuclear payloads.”Mao also claimed that the Philippines worked with the US to bring in the Typhon system, consequently “placing its national security and defense in the hands of others, introducing geopolitical confrontation and arms race into the region and posing substantive threat to regional peace and security.
Mao also criticized the Philippines for refusing to send back the missile system, an act it sees as helping a country outside the region to deploy its military forces. “We once again urge the Philippines to bear in mind that the only right way to safeguard national security is to uphold strategic independence, good-neighborliness and friendship, and peaceful development,” she added.
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