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Region: Southeast Asia The US-China standoff in South-East Asia threatens to turn into a more dangerous, on the brink of an open war, confrontation: The US has announced that it intends to deploy "high-precision missiles with enhanced survivability" along China's eastern maritime border. This project, prepared by the US Indo-Pacific Command, provides for the deployment in the coming years of short- and medium-range land-based high-precision missiles without nuclear warheads on Taiwan, the Philippines and the Japanese island of Okinawa. Pentagon officials explain the need for this step by saying that "without a thorough and credible conventional deterrent, China will have…
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