U.S, Europe Concerns Over Turkey Missile Deal Unfounded, Says China

China on Tuesday defended a military trade agreement with Turkey to co-produce a missile defense system after the U.S and NATO expressed their concerns.  

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying described the deal as “normal” between two countries.

According to Xinhua News Agency, Hua said, that the concern of Western countries is unreasonable and unnecessary. 

She expressed hope that the parties involved will view the normal military trade between China and Turkey in an objective light and not politicize standard commercial competition, the report added.

She added that China hopes that NATO will view the normal military trade with Turkey in an objective light and not politicize standard commercial competition.

The Chinese government has all along adopted a prudent and responsible attitude toward military trade cooperation with foreign countries, she said. 

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday that he expected Turkey to choose a system that was compatible with those of other allies. 

China strictly follows the principles of not impairing peace and stability regionally or globally, non-interference in internal affairs of the recipient countries and strictly performing its international obligations, the spokeswoman was quoted as saying by Xinhua.

The Chinese FD-2000 missile defense system beat the U.S. Patriot, the Russian S-400 and the French-Italian Eurosam Samp-T to win the Turkish contract.