China-Russia Pact Condemns U.S. Missile Shield Plan. It should come as no surprise that the U.S.’s stubborn insistence on forging ahead with the missile defense plan seems to be driving Russia and China closer. They issued a joint warning about the grave security consequences of U.S. persistence. ‘Missile threats cited by the United States as grounds for NMD

(were) “actually a ruse to cover its attempt to violate the ABM,”

said the Sino-Russian statement, referring to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic

Missile treaty.’ If we really want NMD to protect us against missile attacks from “rogue states” and not to garner a strategic imbalance against other nuclear powers, I still say that the best way to show the world that we’re not disingenuous would be to gift China and Russia with the technology (if we ever perfect it…).