USA official confirms China missile deployment on island

Feb 18, 2016, 00:30
USA official confirms China missile deployment on island

Commercial satellite imagery appears to show that China has deployed a surface-to-air missile system in the South China Sea, U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said on Wednesday.

Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense said in a statement it had "grasped that Communist China had deployed" missiles on Woody Island in the Paracel chain.

China has said that it has a historical right to all of the South China Sea.

The island is claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam and the presence of missiles would significantly increase tensions.

A USA official is confirming that China has placed a surface-to-air missile system on an island in the South China Sea.

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It has in recent years added about 3,000 acres of landfill to submerged reefs and built at least three runways capable of supporting military aircraft, according to 2015 Pentagon reports.

"Taiwan's defense ministry also confirmed the missiles deployment; Taiwan's defense ministry spokesman Major General David Lo said Taiwan 'will closely watch subsequent developments'". A United States official told Fox News the imagery viewed appears to show the HQ-9 air defence system, which has a range of 125 miles (200 km) and would pose a threat to any airplanes, civilian or military, flying close by.

"All of those are actions that China, as the biggest littoral state in the South China Sea, has undertaken to provide more public goods and services to the worldwide community and play its positive role there", Wang said.

"The US continues to call on all claimants to halt land reclamation, construction, and militarisation of features in the South China Sea", the official said.

Kerry described that as a "serious concern".

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Ahead of her arrival in Beijing, Ms Bishop had flagged seeking information from China about the objective of its reclamation work on artificial islands and inquiring whether other countries will be granted access. A US Navy destroyer sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island in the Paracels chain last month in a move the Pentagon said was aimed at countering efforts by China, Vietnam and Taiwan to limit freedom of navigation. "If this is true, we believe this will raise tensions further in the region", Toner told reporters.

China's move is likely to rattle Vietnam the most because of its proximity to the Paracels and because of a history of maritime tensions with China that spiked in 2014 with a standoff after China moved a massive oil rig there.

He was responding to reports Beijing has deployed surface-to-air missiles on a disputed island in the region.

Reports of the deployment came shortly after President Barack Obama wrapped up a summit in California on Tuesday with Southeast Asian leaders, who called for the peaceful resolution of the region's maritime disputes through legal means.

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