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| America has deployed its NMESIS ship-killing missile system to islands near Taiwan for the first time. Hosted on the Philippines' northern island of Basco, NMESIS is small, easy to move and hard to find. America hopes its deployment will help deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan |
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