{"id":88256,"date":"2024-08-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/08\/18\/china-dramatically-alarmed-by-us-missile-deployment-philippines\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:09:22","slug":"china-dramatically-alarmed-by-us-missile-deployment-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2024\/08\/18\/china-dramatically-alarmed-by-us-missile-deployment-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"China \u2018dramatically\u2019 alarmed by US missile deployment: Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MANILA, Philippines \u2014 China expressed its \u201cvery dramatic\u201d alarm over a mid-range missile system that the U.S. military recently deployed to the Philippines, and warned it could destabilize the region. But Manila\u2019s top diplomat said Friday he reassured his Chinese counterpart that the weaponry was only in the country temporarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Philippine Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo said his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, expressed China\u2019s concern over the U.S. mid-range missile deployment to the Philippines during their <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/laos-asean-foreign-ministers-myanmar-south-china-sea-2db8379c8cd4855948cb40ed2d295cff\" target=\"_blank\">talks last month in Laos<\/a> on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations meetings with Asian and Western countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe discussed it and, well, they made it very dramatic,\u201d Manalo said in response to questions during a news conference with foreign correspondents in Manila. \u201cI said you shouldn\u2019t be worried.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2024\/07\/30\/austin-pledges-500m-in-security-aid-to-philippines-amid-uncertainty\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/53760503877_e71672eebd_o.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Austin pledges $500M in security aid to Philippines amid uncertainty<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The aid is the latest sign of the strengthening security ties between the United States and The Philippines.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pressed to specify what China\u2019s specific concerns were, Manalo said Wang warned the presence of the U.S. missile system could be \u201cdestabilizing,\u201d but the Philippine foreign affairs chief said he disagreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey\u2019re not destabilizing\u201d and the missile system was only in the Philippines temporarily, Manalo said he told Wang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Army said in April it transported the mid-range missile system, a land-based weapon that can fire the Standard Missile-6 and the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, from the U.S. to the northern Philippines as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2024\/04\/08\/army-to-hold-training-in-the-philippines-as-maritime-tensions-rise\/\" target=\"_blank\">combat exercises<\/a> with Philippine troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p 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