Sentence examples for regional defense system from inspiring English sources

Although a United States Embassy statement specified only that Admiral Mullen would meet with Gen. Isik Kosaner, his new Turkish counterpart, local news media suggested that the United States would also demand Turkey's response on whether it would allow the construction of an antimissile radar station on its territory as part of a regional defense system.

"The challenge is how do you turn on a regional defense system when different countries are purchasing different equipment and at different paces?

This situation could improve if regional territorial disputes would be resolved and China would participate in an effective regional defense system that would reduce the fears of its neighbors.

Even so, the challenges to creating an integrated regional missile defense system are both technological and political.

Much of his effort has been aimed at spurring the development of a regional missile defense system to be deployed with allies, particularly Japan and South Korea.

The differences between Washington and Beijing over Taiwan will persist as long as Washington supports a regional missile defense system that could be used as a shield for Taiwan, a Chinese foreign policy analyst, Chu Shulong, said today.

Mr. Putin also succeeded today in crafting a joint statement with Vietnam opposing any American plans to erect a regional missile defense system in Asia to protect American and allied military forces.

But the Foreign Ministry's spokesman, Zhu Bangzao, focused most of his comments on Taiwan and said that Washington must not include Taiwan in a regional missile defense system "in any capacity".

That is also the explanation for the American efforts to create a regional missile defense system across the Gulf to protect cities, oil refineries, pipelines and military bases from an Iranian attack.

Thom Shanker reports in today's paper about an effort to knit together a "regional missile defense system across the Persian Gulf to protect cities, oil refineries, pipelines and military bases from an Iranian attack".

WASHINGTON — The United States and its Arab allies are knitting together a regional missile defense system across the Persian Gulf to protect cities, oil refineries, pipelines and military bases from an Iranian attack, according to government officials and public documents.