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A US mid-range missile system deployed in the Philippines for annual joint military exercises — to the annoyance of China — will be pulled out of the country, a Philippine Army spokesman said Thursday.The US Army said in April it had deployed the Mid-Range Capability missile system which can fire the Standard Missile 6 and the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile in the northern Philippines.
"The US Army is currently shipping out their equipment that we used during Balikatan and Salaknib ."The presence of the mid-range missile system on Philippine soil had angered Beijing.Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun warned in June there were "limits" to Beijing's restraint on the South China Sea and over the deployment of ballistic missiles in the Asia-Pacific region.
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