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Identity, Culture, and Chinese Foreign Policy THAAD and China’s South Korea Policy

By Kangkyu Lee Copyright 2021
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

This book assesses the role of identity and Chinese face culture in Chinese foreign policy by analyzing China’s political and economic retaliation against South Korea’s deployment of the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) system on its soil. By examining the history and military action of China, Japan, and North and South Korea, the book argues that China’s divergent responses were... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Identity and Chinese Foreign Policy  3. Chinese Face Culture and Foreign Policy  4. Case Study: Japan’s THAAD Radar Deployment  5. Case Study: South Korea’s THAAD System Deployment  6. Case Study: North Korea’s Taepodong-2 Launch and the First Nuclear Test  7. Conclusion

Biography

Kangkyu Lee is a research fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA), the Republic of Korea.