美国与菲律宾安全官员同意，在不考虑中国方面的担忧后，将美国一款中程导弹系统长期驻扎在菲律宾北部。该系统包括陆基武器，能够发射标准导弹-6和托马斯卡导弹，并于四月份作为与菲律宾军队联合军事演习的一部分，测试了其空中运输能力。
托马斯卡导弹的射程超过1000英里（约1600公里），中国正好在其目标范围之内。官员们正在考虑将该导弹系统在菲律宾北部驻扎至明年4月。届时，美菲两国计划进行年度“肩并肩”大规模军事演习。
对此事保持匿名的两位菲律宾高级官员对美联社表示，双方均不愿公开讨论这一敏感的美国导弹部署情况。目前尚无来自美国官方的直接回应。
中方已多次向菲律宾政府表达忧虑，警告称此部署可能导致地区局势不稳定。
菲律宾军方早些时候曾声明系统将于本月末离开该国，国防部长吉尔伯托·特奥多罗未确认这是否意味着延期驻扎。
特奥多罗反驳了中国对于其内政的干涉，并在周二对记者说：“他们在指责我们之前，为何不首先示范？摧毁自己的核武库、移除所有弹道导弹能力，在西菲律宾海撤军并离开争议礁石。”他指的是菲律宾对南中国海主权要求的一个特定部分和中国占据争议岛屿的一块。
尽管该系统为菲美军事演习的一部分被运至菲律宾，但据菲律宾和美国军事官员透露，在演习中未发射该导弹。
针对在菲律宾地区增加美军部署的行为——包括对菲律宾的部署——中国政府强烈反对，认为这些举动威胁到区域稳定与和平。
菲律宾与美国一再谴责中国在南中国海不断加剧的领土争端中的强硬态度，去年以来，中国和菲律宾海岸警卫队及伴随船只间的冲突持续发生。
除了中国与菲律宾以外，越南、马来西亚、文莱和台湾都对这片繁忙水域——全球重要的运输航道以及潜在的巨大海底油气资源提出重叠主权要求。
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AP记者阿伦·法维尔协助撰写了此报告。
新闻来源：www.abcnews.go.com
原文地址：US missile system will remain in the Philippines despite China’s alarm
新闻日期：2024-09-25
原文摘要：
American and Filipino security officials have agreed to keep a U.S. mid-range missile system in the northern Philippines indefinitely to boost deterrence despite China's expressions of alarm, two Philippine officials said Wednesday. The U.S. Army transported the Typhon missile system, a land-based weapon that can fire the Standard Missile-6 and the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, to the northern Philippines as part of combat exercises in April with Philippine troops and to test its deployability aboard an Air Force aircraft. Tomahawk missiles can travel over 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers), which places China within their target range. Officials are considering keeping the missile system in the northern Philippines up to April next year, when U.S. and Philippine forces are scheduled to hold their annual Balikatan — Tagalog for "shoulder-to-shoulder" — large-scale combat exercises, he said. The two officials spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the sensitive U.S. missile deployment publicly. There was no immediate immediate comment from U.S. officials. Chinese diplomats have repeatedly conveyed their alarm to the Philippine government, warning that the deployment of the missile system could destabilize the region. A Philippine army spokesperson said earlier that the system was scheduled to be removed from the country by the end of this month. Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. refused to confirm or deny the extension. But Teodoro rejected China’s demands as interference in the Philippines internal affairs, speaking to reporters Tuesday on the sidelines of an Asian defense industry exhibition in Manila. “China is saying that they are alarmed but that is interference into our internal affairs. They are using reverse psychology in order to deter us from building up our defensive capabilities,” Teodoro said. “Before they start talking, why don’t they lead by example? Destroy their nuclear arsenal, remove all their ballistic missile capabilities, get out of the West Philippines Sea and get out of Mischief Reef,” Teodoro said. “I mean, don’t throw stones when you live in a glass house.” Teodoro used the Philippine name for the disputed South China Sea and for a contested reef off the western Philippines that Chinese forces seized in 1995 and is now one of seven missile-protected island bases China maintains in the disputed waters. Philippine military chief Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. said he has asked U.S. military officials to keep the missile system in the Philippines, but declined to say what was their response. “If I were given the choice, I would like to have the Typhon here in the Philippines forever because we need it for our defense,” Brawner told reporters. Last month, Philippine Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo said his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi expressed China’s “very dramatic” concern over the U.S. mid-range missile deployment to the Philippines during their recent talks in Laos on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations meetings with Asian and Western countries. Manalo said Wang warned the presence of the U.S. missile system could be “destabilizing,” but he said that he disagreed. “They’re not destabilizing” and the missile system was only in the Philippines temporarily, Manalo said he told Wang. Although the missile system was transported to the Philippines for joint combat exercises in April, it was not fired during the joint drills by the longtime treaty allies, according to Philippine and U.S. military officials. China has strongly opposed increased U.S. military deployments to the region, including to the Philippines, saying they could endanger regional stability and peace. The U.S. and the Philippines have repeatedly condemned China’s increasingly assertive actions to fortify its territorial claims in the South China Sea, where hostilities have flared since last year with repeated clashes between Chinese and Philippine coast guard forces and accompanying vessels. Aside from China and the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan also have overlapping claims in the busy waterway, a key global and security route which is also believed to be sitting atop vast undersea deposits of gas and oil. ___ Associated Press journalist Aaron Favila contributed to this report.
