Russia and China Respond to THAAD

... regional security and what countermeasures Moscow and Beijing may take. At this point Russia-China agreement on joint measures to establish their strategic interests and balance of power in the region, signed in a response to future deployment of the US missile defense system THAAD in South Korea should rather be viewed as a step to increase political pressure on Seoul. Evidently, it is too early to speak about parties’ readiness to take immediate military action. The decision to deploy a THAAD battery in South Korea ...