Russia helping China to build missile-attack warning system: Putin

• This is a serious thing that will drastically increase the defence capabilities of the People's Republic of China.

MOSCOW: Russia is helping China to build a missile attack warning system, something which only Russia itself and the United States possess at the moment, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.

"This is a serious thing that will drastically increase the defence capabilities of the People's Republic of China," he told an international politics conference in the Russian resort town of Sochi.