Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated new South Korean leader Moon Jae-in on Wednesday amid soaring tensions on the Korean Peninsula, saying Beijing is willing to work with Seoul to ¡°properly handle differences.¡±
Xi¡¯s message to Moon comes as China and South Korea have seen their once-flowering ties wither after Seoul¡¯s decision to install a U.S.-made anti-missile system in the country as a means of countering a possible North Korean attack.
The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system¡¯s deployment has angered Beijing, which sees it as threat to national security because the system¡¯s radar is powerful enough to peer into China¡¯s northeast ¡ª potentially to monitor flights and missile launches.
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