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China. The Chinese People�s Daily Dec 12 Pakistan Media: US to Deploy NMD in Afghanistan to Control China.
According to a report from Pakistan Frontier Post, as the American forces successfully set foot in
Afghanistan,
Washington may deploy NMD in Afghanistan to control China
in the battlefront, sources said.
Sources say that "America comes to Afghanistan with many aims", first, the United States wants to control the flow
of natural resources from Central Asian countries into
China via Afghanistan, so that it could restrain China's
increasing economic and military influence. Second, it
wants to deploy NMD in Afghanistan. The sources also
said
that the United States would carry out those targets after
Afghanistan's situation is stabilized in the coming two
years.
China Against US NMD System China's standing on the anti-missile issue is very clear and consistent.China opposes the US National Missile Defense
(NMD) system.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue made the remarks December 4 at a regular press conference.
China holds that all sides should seek solutions through careful and serious dialogue to safeguard security and
benefit each side, and not harm the international disarmament
and arms control, she said.
Chinese Ambassador Warns of Grave Consequences of NMD The development and deployment of the national missile defense system (NMD)by the United States will undermine global strategic
balance and stability and threaten international peace and
stability, a Chinese official said September 14.
"Once NMD is deployed, the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (ABM Treaty) will be dead in
essence," said Chinese Ambassador to the Conference on
Disarmament (CD) Hu Xiaodi at the CD plenary.
US NMD Systems The NMD complex currently planned has six distinct parts, all of which must perform perfectly if the system is to succeed.
These elements are: * 1) The initial launch detection
and
tracking system that consists of the satellites of the Defense
Support Program (DSP).
2) Five ground-based early warning radars (including one each in the UK and Greenland) that receive the initial
tracking data from DSP or SBIRS-High through the system's
command and control network.
3) Four but possibly as many as nine (including one each in the UK, Greenland, and South Korea) X-band (high frequency,
short wavelength) radars whose function is to discriminate
between incoming real warheads and decoys.
4) Interceptor booster, a modified three stage commercial "off-the-shelf" very fast rocket which carries the exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV) to close proximity of
the planned intercept point.
5) Exoatmospheric kill vehicle, whose on-board computer processes updates on the location of the hostile missile
after the EKV has separated from the booster.
6) The Battle Management, Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3)network, the heart of NMD.
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