US, China trap Seoul between a rock and a THAAD place
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Installing a controversial US missile defence system in South Korea was never going to be easy but, caught between Beijing’s opposition and American insistence, the country’s new president has a strategy: delay. Seoul suspended deployment of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defence (Thaad) system this week following a furious campaign of economic sanctions and diplomatic protests […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-china-trap-seoul-between-a-rock-and-a-thaad-place-70149/
Installing a controversial US missile defence system in South Korea was never going to be easy but, caught between Beijing’s opposition and American insistence, the country’s new president has a strategy: delay. Seoul suspended deployment of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defence (Thaad) system this week following a furious campaign of economic sanctions and diplomatic protests […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-china-trap-seoul-between-a-rock-and-a-thaad-place-70149/