{"id":147877,"date":"2026-03-14T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147877"},"modified":"2026-03-14T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:00:09","slug":"the-us-is-shifting-thaad-from-south-korea-to-the-mideast-what-does-that-mean-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147877","title":{"rendered":"The US is shifting THAAD from South Korea to the Mideast. What does that mean for China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWashington\u2019s redeployment of elements of its missile defence systems from South Korea to the Middle East could be read by China as a short-term capability gap in the region, analysts said.<br \/>\nThey said the move also underlined US flexibility to move its assets across theatres of operation.<br \/>\nA Washington Post report on Tuesday citing two unnamed US government officials said that the United States had been moving parts of its Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-missile system stationed in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3346575\/us-shifting-thaad-south-korea-mideast-what-does-mean-china?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWashington\u2019s redeployment of elements of its missile defence systems from South Korea to the Middle East could be read by China as a short-term&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147877"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}