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Fu Cong, the director general of the Department of Arms Control at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ALEX HALADA / AFP

China warned on Tuesday, August 6, the US against missile deployment in the Asia-Pacific region and called on the countries of the region to "caution".

With our correspondent in Beijing, Stéphane Lagarde

" China will be forced to take action if the United States comes to deploy its missiles in the region, " said Fu Cong, the director general of the Department of Arms Control at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

No details on countermeasures

Beijing has not given details about these countermeasures, but the Chinese diplomacy puts the finger on the map and points the neighbors include: Japan, South Korea, Australia , as possible bases for deployment of US gears.

The talk comes as Pentagon chief Mark Esper prepares an Asian tour, the latter having said this weekend how the United States was just eager to position new conventional weapons in Asia.

These Chinese countermeasures can be economical ... The installation of a battery Thaad , the US missile system in South Korea in 2017 has provoked the fury of the Chinese authorities of which some South Korean companies installed in China are still experiencing the backlash.

Accelerated Chinese deployment ?

The communist regime could also accelerate the deployment of its own intermediate missiles already massively implanted on the artificial islands of the South China Sea and aimed directly at US aircraft carriers cruising in the area.