America Wants to Build a Ballistic Missile Defense System in Asia; This Action Has a Hidden Motive

America claims that she wants to deploy an anti-missile system in Asia and makes it clear that she will discuss the deployment of this system with Japan, South Korea and other countries. It is obvious that America intends to deploy this anti-missile system at China’s doorstep.

On Mar. 26, assistant secretary of defense for global strategic affairs, Keli Deng, disclosed that America would like to build a regional ballistic missile defense system in Asia and the Middle East like the one that Europe wants to construct. America will discuss the deployment of this system with Australia, Korea and Japan to achieve this goal. When Keli Deng explained the strategic intention of the deployment of this defense system, he stated that the reason for deploying a new defense system in Asia and the Middle East was mainly to target Iran and North Korea. This move provides protection for the neighboring countries of Iran and North Korea, and would also be favorable for America in regards to responding to any future remote missile threats.

This speech immediately caused relevant countries to be greatly concerned. On Mar. 27, Hong Lei, the spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that China still believed that all countries should be careful to deal with the anti-missile issue through political and diplomatic means in order to achieve general security. Russia stated its concerns about whether such a system would work against Russian nuclear missiles, which act as a strategic deterrent to other countries. This would diminish Russia’s ability to defend itself.

The U.S. National Missile Defense system was proposed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton. It mainly uses high-tech methods like early warning radar and military satellites. Its goal is to intercept the enemy missile when it is discovered and destroy it in the air so that the purpose of defending against the enemy’s missile can be achieved.

On the surface, this system is purely defensive equipment. It does not have the means or capability of attacking other countries. However, the problem of this system comes from its ability to disrupt world peace and national security. Currently, world peace and national security are maintained largely by mutual deterrence between countries. In other words, a country does not dare to be the first to attack another country over a strategic conflict of interest for fear of retaliation. In the nuclear era, such a strategic attack could be fatal. This is called the “mutually assured destruction theory,” which is also considered to be one of the positive roles of nuclear weapons. Some people believe that America and Russia are constantly fighting, but do not dare to actually go to war due to the enormous destructive capacity of nuclear weapons. Both sides fear triggering a nuclear war, which would cause each to perish together.