Beijing has issued a fresh protest over Japan's plan to station medium-range air-defense missiles on a small island near Taiwan after the island’s mayor signaled he would accept the deployment. " China is deeply concerned about these developments," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said during Wednesday's regular press conference. "Under the pretext of ‘defense’ and ‘counterattack,' Japan is stepping up the deployment of a range of offensive weapons, including missiles , in areas