BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s defence ministry on Thursday urged the Asia-Pacific to be on excessive alert as the US steps up ahead army deployment within the area, after reviews of a U.S. plan to revive a Pacific airfield that launched atomic bombings of Japan.
The Chinese language army is paying shut consideration to strikes by the US, and can firmly safeguard China’s maritime rights, safety and sovereignty within the area, Wu Qian, a spokesperson on the defence ministry, informed an everyday information convention.
Earlier in December, a U.S. air pressure basic informed Japan’s Nikkei newspaper that the U.S. army will make “vital progress” in direction of reclaiming the Tinian North airfield from overgrown jungle vegetation within the coming months, as a part of a plan to disperse plane throughout the Indo-Pacific area as China’s missile menace grows.
The airfield, deserted after World Warfare II, lies on Tinian island, a part of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory, and about 200 kilometres (124 miles) north of Guam.
(Reporting by Laurie Chen and Ryan Woo. Modifying by Jane Merriman)
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