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Russia and China Respond to THAAD

... countermeasures Moscow and Beijing may take. At this point Russia-China agreement on joint measures to establish their strategic interests and balance of power in the region, signed in a response to future deployment of the US missile defense system THAAD in South Korea should rather be viewed as a step to increase political pressure on Seoul. Evidently, it is too early to speak about parties’ readiness to take immediate military action. The decision to deploy a THAAD battery in South Korea was made ...

17.01.2017

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Have Rockets, Will Quarrel

... a large extent by external forces. Again the forecast is pessimistic: after the official announcement that the resistance from China and inside South Korea has been overcome, backtracking would be a criminal show of weakness. So we can be sure that THAAD complexes will be deployed in South Korea with much fanfare next year (and perhaps sooner if the North provides a pretext). The consequences are unpredictable, but certainly they are not going to be positive. For Russia, the situation is unpleasant first and foremost because this ...

26.07.2016

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