China Slams U.S.-Japan Plan For Missile Defense in Asia

CND, 6 October 1998

[CND, 10/06/98] China on Tuesday slammed a plan for Japan and the
United States to develop a theater missile defense (TMD) program that
was to include Taiwan, calling it an anti-China plan, AFP
reported.

The United States and Japan have tentatively agreed to start the
program after North Korea launched a rocket, later thought to be a
satellite, that flew over part of Japan in late August, but no final
decision has been made, according to a Japanese government official.
[Summarized by Dan WU & YIN De An; in China News Digest, Global
News, GL98-137 (9 October 1998)]