Sun, Ru

Abstract
The THAAD issue stirs up the strategic security situation in Northeast Asia and the world, damaging mutual trust between China and South Korea as well as that between China and the United States,testing China’s ability to safeguard strategic security interests and handle relations with neighboring countries and among major powers.China’s reaction attracts wide attention,including misunderstanding and criticism. There is a view that the alliance between the United States and South Korea is dominated by the United States and followed by South Korea,marked by deployment of THAAD. China’s countermeasures should be targeted at the United States.China should not set the South Korea as the main target. There is also a view that China overreacted,and that China should confine responses to military matters and ought not to expand them to areas of economy and trade as well as cultural exchange. Other opinions hold that the deployment of THAAD is related to the North Korea issue and that China should oppose North Korean nuclear buildup instead of THAAD.
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