US-Made Air Defense System Cleared To Deploy In South Korea, Angering China

“When you’re too important to be ignored, it’s best to align and strengthen your defenses so you don’t end up as a battlefield,” Elbridge Colby, principal of The Marathon Initiative and former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense, tweeted on Tuesday. That’s “why a policy of trying to stay out of it is unwise for countries like South Korea.”