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>China reiterates firm opposition to US NMD program (09/5/2000) Chinese FM
>spokesman on UN Millennium Summit (09/5/2000) China Tuesday voiced again its
>firm opposition to the National Missile Defense (NMD) program of the United
>States. When answering a question at a press conference this afternoon,
>Foreign Ministry spokesman Sun Yuxi urged the US to go along the trend of the
>time, carefully listen to the just appeal of the international community, and
>completely abandon its anti-missile plans at an early date. Sun said that the
>US development of advanced anti-missile systems, in the form of the NMD or the
>Theater Missile Defense ( TMD), is designed to ensure its own absolute
>security and the freedom of action, and to seek a US-led mono-polar world. He
>said that such an attempt will undermine the global and regional strategic
>balance and stability, and get the process of international arms control and
>disarmament and anti-proliferation deadlocked, and even reverse the process
>and lead to a new round of arms race in the world. "The prospects of the
>matter are detrimental to all the countries," he said. Many countries have
>expressed concerns about the US attempt to develop anti-missile systems, and
>some of its allies also expressed doubt and unrest, Sun said, adding that such
>an attempt is also opposed by Americans. "All these demonstrate that the US
>anti-missile plans are unpopular," the spokesman stated. (Xinhua)
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