Given the bitter complaints China has registered, this is interesting:
Seoul and Beijing on Tuesday agreed to move beyond a year-long stand-off over the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system in South Korea, a dispute that has been devastating to South Korean businesses that rely on Chinese consumers. ...
“At this critical moment all stakeholders should be working together to address the North Korea nuclear challenge instead of creating problems for others,” said Wang Dong, associate professor of international studies at China’s Peking University.
“This sends a very positive signal that Beijing and Seoul are determined to improve their relations.”
Could South Korea have pledged to send THAAD back to the United States if North Korea's nuclear arsenal and potential is removed?
If so, does that mean that American pressure on China to do something before we deal with North Korea is paying off? Will China strike in the next several months before North Korea has a long-range nuclear weapon?
Or does China see getting rid of THAAD as worth the price of standing aside as America leads an assault on North Korea's nuclear capabilities?
Or maybe THAAD seems better than South Korea going nuclear in response to North Korea getting nukes.
Or maybe South Korea promised to delete data gathered from Chinese air space with the THAAD radar?
I just don't know what to make of this. But it is something.
