Cold
War 2.0
China
says the United States and South Korea are totally responsible for
“any consequences” of their decision to deploy the US
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system on the
Korean Peninsula, warning that Beijing will “resolutely”
adopt due measures to protect its own “security interests.”
The
installation of the US advanced anti-missile system by the Republic
of Korea Armed Forces (ROK) “will severely disrupt regional
strategic balance, gravely jeopardize the strategic security
interests of relevant countries in this region including China, and
is not conducive to peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula,”
said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang in a Monday press
briefing.
Beijing’s
warning came a few hours after the board of South Korea’s Lotte
Group, a giant multinational conglomerate, announced that it had
approved a land swap with the Seoul that would enable military
authorities to deploy the THAAD missile system on an area that is
part of a golf course owned by the Lotte International Co Ltd.
In
return, the ROK reportedly gave the Lotte Group a state-owned
military site in the vicinity of the capital.
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