Spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Minister Zhu Bangzao recently pointed out that the United States has the largest nuclear and conventional weapons arsenal in the world and it is now putting great effort into developing an NMD systems and TMD. This does not conform with the trend of the times, is not conducive to the work toward arms control and reduction and will produce an extensive and negative effect on global and regional strategic balance and stability in the 21st century. China is gravely concerned about this.
China believes that the development , deployment and transfer of an anti-ballistic missile system with strategic defense potential cannot strengthen security and prevent missile proliferation, on the contrary, it will damage security, stimulate missile proliferation and violate the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The Treaty is important for safeguarding global strategic balance and stability and maintaining the momentum of the process of nuclear disarmament and should be strictly observed.
Any country providing Taiwan, a province of China, with any weaponry system including the TMD will seriously encroach upon China's sovereignty and territorial integrity and will be firmly opposed by the Chinese people. The Chinese side demands that the US side observes the three Sino-US joint communiques and relevant promises and will not proliferate the TMD and its related technology to Taiwan in any form.
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