Cold
War 2.0
The joint
decision of Washington and Seoul to deploy the U.S. Terminal High
Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) system in South Korea damages the mutual
trust and cooperation developed with China by threatening China's
strategic security interests.
The move,
regardless of China's repeated opposition, undermines the foundation
of their strategic cooperative partnership at a time when it actually
should be deepening.
The decision
to deploy THAAD breaks the regional strategic balance by tying South
Korea to the U.S. chariot of Asia-Pacific re-balancing.
With the
system's X-band radar commanding surveillance of an area that extends
over 1,200 miles (about 1,900 km) from the Korean Peninsula, the
United States can spy on almost half of China's territory and the
southern part of Russia's Far East, endangering the two countries'
national security.
Such a
system challenges Seoul's argument that it is only directed at
missile and nuclear threats alleged from the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea (DPRK). As it fits well into Washington's planned
anti-missile shield against China in the Asia-Pacific, some South
Korean media have commented it as a result of humiliated diplomacy
and a move to serve U.S. Hegemony.
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