China reiterated its concerns about the Philippines’ plan to acquire the US Typhon missile defense system. In the foreign ministry press briefing on Thursday, December 26, the spokesperson of the ministry, Mao Ning, claimed it is a “strategic and offensive” weapon which may fuel arms race in the region. China also restated its long-standing demand for the withdrawal of the system already deployed near its borders.

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    Taiwan’s own constitution states that it is a province of China. The disagreement is, about who are the rightful government of all China. The western media industrial complex always fail to point that bit out.

    Another thing they would rather you didn’t know is that Taiwan also claims the same territorial waters in the South China Sea, the same nine dash line, that the rest of China claims.