South Korea’s deployment of THAAD upsets China, seen as espionage tool

China has only themselves to blame. They've let their little client state (North Korea) get out of control to the point where they have nukes and have made threats of using them. If they didn't want a nuclear arms race amongst their neighbors, they should have taken appropriate action years ago.

China has no one but Xi is to blame. He gets an F for foreign policy. By delaying action on North Korea at the beginning of their nuclear ambition, they&#x27;ve increased tensions in the region with very little benefit to China and a ton of win for US, S. Korea &amp; Japan by having powerful THAAD radars.<p>It is the radars that is the bigger issue because it diminishes China&#x27;s nuclear projection in the region.

The funny thing is China deployed long range radar system that can monitor the sky of S. Korea AND Japan like 10 years ago...

Good, let them fight each other instead of us and our allies.

theatre defence is seen as espionage lol its not like both China and the USA haven&#x27;t got massive elint&#x2F;sigint operations

What a disaster in that region last few weeks... Let&#x27;s review: SK impeached its president; NK tested more missiles; US bungled the messaging of the armada, reversed position on China&#x27;s currency manipulation, then &quot;realized it&#x27;s not so easy&quot;; then China spins PR against SK for deploying a defense, then they add on some passive aggressive internet hacking.<p>Maybe things aren&#x27;t so bad elsewhere.