“China is strongly opposed to the deployment by the United States of medium-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region. If the United States continues to adhere to this plan for accommodation, then for China it will become a provocation “right on the threshold of his house,” TASS quoted him as saying.

As Wu Qian noted, Beijing "will not sit idly by and take all necessary decisive retaliatory measures."

He expressed the hope that the Asia-Pacific countries would not allow Washington to deploy medium-range missiles on its territory so as not to become victims of US geopolitical plans.

Earlier, US leader Donald Trump spoke about the development of a “super-duper missile,” which can surpass the similar weapons that Russia and China have.