U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, left, and China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) Gen. Li Zuocheng, right, salute during a welcome ceremony at the Bayi Building in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. REUTERS/Mark Schiefelbein/Pool
Reuters: U.S. lobbies China again on missile defense system
A decision by the United States and South Korea to deploy an advanced anti-missile defense system is aimed at defending against North Korea's missile threat and does not threaten China, a senior U.S. officer said in Beijing on Tuesday.
The United States has repeatedly tried to rebuff anger from China about Seoul's move to host a Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) unit with the U.S. military.
Mark A. Milley, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, told his People's Liberation Army counterpart Li Zuocheng that THAAD was a defensive measure, the U.S. Army said in a statement released by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
THAAD "is a defensive measure to protect South Koreans and Americans from the North Korean ballistic missile threat and is not a threat in any way to China", the statement paraphrased Milley as saying.
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Update #1: US Army Chief Visits China Amid Missile System Tensions (AP)
Update #2: Top U.S. Army General Seeks to Assure China on Missile Defense System (WSJ)
WNU Editor: Here is an easy prediction .... nothing is going to be accomplished by this meeting.
1 comment:
Something will be accomplished.
this will reassure the apparatchiks in the Democratic party and a few of the Low information Voters (LIV) who happen to hear this news.
Now the apparatchiks will not flag in denouncing the critics of the Left.
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