China lodges protest with South Korea over deployment of THAAD launchers

‘China has lodged a stern protest against South Korea over the deployment of four additional Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) launchers, according to the foreign ministry.
The comment was made by Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang during a regular press briefing on Thursday, according to Reuters.
It comes just one day after Geng said that China “expresses serious concern” over the decision to deploy the additional launchers, adding that such a move can “in no way address the security concerns of the relevant countries” involved in the North Korean standoff.
Instead, it will “only severely undermine regional strategic balance and jeopardize the strategic security interests of China and other regional countries.
“Moreover, it will exacerbate the tensions and confrontation on the Korean Peninsula and complicate the Korean Peninsula issue,” he said on Wednesday.’
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