Abstract
Chinese and American officials have expressed their positions through various channels since news broke in 2014 of US preparations to deploy the THAAD system in South Korea.In academic circles,there has also been heated debate.However,these views frequently differ,even in the Sino-US non-official communication channels on nuclear strategy.Each side tends to confine itself to its own perspective,which achieves little toward meaningful consensus.Pieces THAAD equipment began to arrive in Korea in March of 2017.With the actual deployment taking place,it is inevitable that China will take strategic countermeasures based on unavoidable risks of confrontation between China and United States.The author believes that the THAAD issue embodies current barriers to Sino-US mutual strategic security,and that the two countries need to use dialogue as the touchstone for mutual trust on issues of divergence rather than something which is so clearly a watershed of military buildup and confrontation.
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