Title:

 The Real Reason China Is Desperate to Stop THAAD

Author:

Grant Newsham

Source:

The National Interest

Date:

 March 25, 2017

Description:

Chinese opposition to South Korea’s deployment of the THAAD missile defense system is less about missiles than about an ongoing effort to weaken—and ideally demolish—the United States’ network of formal and informal alliances in Asia that has underpinned the regional order for the last seventy years.