However, China will not sit idly by and watch its strategic interests being jeopardized without taking necessary countermeasures. China will be forced to take some steps which it is reluctant to take. It is quite possible for China to review its policies on various arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation issues, including the FMCT negotiations. Moreover, years of sound coordination and cooperation between the two countries in relevant fields will certainly be severely affected. I firmly believe that any policies aimed at harming others will end up hurting oneself.
China is firmly against such program.
US-Japan joint research of advanced TMD will provide technical and financial support to US NMD program. Once it is deployed in North-East Asia, this region will become the forefront of the US NMD system. China certainly opposes this. The bilateral military arrangement will become regional arrangement. This will upgrade the integrated capabilities of offense and defense of the US-Japan military alliance to a level higher than that in the Cold War.