{"id":195809,"date":"2019-10-04T07:40:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T07:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195809"},"modified":"2019-10-07T07:20:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T07:20:13","slug":"russia-is-helping-china-build-a-missile-defence-system-putin-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195809","title":{"rendered":"Russia is helping China build a missile defence system, Putin says"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guardian \u2013 Oct 4, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Days after Beijing unveils state-of-the-art missiles, like the DF-17 above, Moscow announces plan that would \u2018radically enhance China\u2019s defence capability. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Russian president Vladimir Putin<\/a> has said that Moscow is helping China build a system to warn of ballistic missile launches.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the cold war, only the United States and Russia<\/a> have had such systems, which involve an array of ground-based radars and space satellites. The systems allow for early spotting of intercontinental ballistic missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking at an international affairs conference in Moscow on Thursday, Putin said Russia had been helping China<\/a> develop such a system. He added that \u201cthis is a very serious thing that will radically enhance China\u2019s defence capability\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

His statement signalled a new degree of defence cooperation between the two former Communist rivals that have developed increasingly close political and military ties while Beijing and Washington have sunk into a trade war.<\/span><\/p>\n

In June, Chinese president Xi Jinping called Putin his \u201cbest and bosom friend<\/strong><\/span>,\u201d<\/a> adding he cherished their \u201cdeep friendship.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There was no immediate comment from Beijing, but Putin\u2019s claim got a mixed reaction online. On China\u2019s Twitter-like social media platform Weibo, some users cheered \u201cnew heights in strategic cooperation\u201d, but others questioned whether Beijing needed Russia\u2019s help with military hardware.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOnce again, Russian bragging! Maybe its linked to their national culture,\u201d said one user. \u201cChinese wouldn\u2019t brag like that\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this week China debuted new military hardware including a \u201chypersonic\u201d missile experts believe could be difficult for the US to counter. The missile, known as the DF-17, can in theory manoeuvre sharply at many times the speed of sound, making it extremely difficult to defend against.<\/span><\/p>\n

In August China and Russia<\/a> accused the United States of stoking a new arms race by testing a cruise missile, just weeks after Washington withdrew from a cold-war era missile control treaty that would have barred the test launch.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ground-launched missile, a conventionally-configured version of the nuclear-capable Tomahawk cruise missile, hit its target after over 500 kilometres of flight during the test, the Pentagon said in a statement<\/strong><\/span>.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ground-launched versions of the missile had been removed from service decades ago, after the intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty was signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987.<\/span><\/p>\n

The treaty\u2019s ban on missiles with ranges between 500km and 5,500km aimed to reduce the ability of both countries to launch a nuclear strike at short notice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, condemned the launch, but said Moscow was not looking to start a new arms race, and would not deploy any new missiles unless the US did first.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beijing also attacked the US, warning that the missile test could lead to \u201canother round of the arms race\u201d, and have a \u201cserious negative impact\u201d on international and regional security.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Lillian Yang. With Associated Press and Reuters<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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