'萨德' 为何激怒中国

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(2) 储百亮, '萨德' 为何激怒中国. 纽约时报中文网, Mar 13, 2017
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/2017 ... ssile-system-china/

, which is translated from

Chris Buckley, Why US Antimissile System in South Korea Worries China. New York Times, Mar 13, 2017 (in the world news section).

Quote:

"China has had the ability to put multiple warheads on missiles since the 1990s, but seems to have done so only recently, when some missiles were installed with three or four warheads, said Jeffrey Lewis, an expert on China's nuclear forces at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.

"Its ]China's] chief worry is not that Thaad could take down missiles: the system offers a canopy of potential protection over South Korea, but does not have the reach to bring down China's intercontinental ballistic missiles [which can not be lobbed to Korea or Japan; the distances are too short for ICBMs]. Instead, China's complaint is focused on Thaad's radar system, which Chinese experts have said could be used to track the People's Liberation Army's missile forces. * * * Li Bin 李 彬, a nuclear weapons expert at Tsinghua University in Beijing, wrote last week [The Security Dilemma and THAAD Deployment in the ROK. China US Focus, Mar 6, 2017].  He and other Chinese experts say the radar could identify [but how?] which Chinese missiles are carrying decoy warheads intended to outfox foes.

"Chinese experts are nearly unanimous in supporting Beijing's criticisms. But quite a few foreign experts say those fears are overstated or unfounded. The United States already has access to radar systems in Qatar [which is not against China, but nominally against Iran, and theoretically against Russia also] and Taiwan able to peer at China's missile tests, and Japan has two radar systems just like the one used for Thaad, Mr Lewis said.

Note: Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi ... Studies_at_Monterey
(In "2005, Middlebury College [at Middlebury, Vermont] and the Monterey Institute signed an affiliation agreement")