March 2, 2017

"Although mainstream Chinese society has supported sanctions on South Korea and Lotte Group in particular, some people also hold different views. This is normal. China has already become a diverse society in which it's impossible to have a monolithic view of a single event. However, Chinese society has formed a collective determination to impose sanctions on South Korea, so there is no room for the latter to take any chances.

The dissenters hold that China is bullying the weak and fears the strong as it shuns confronting the US, initiator of the deployment of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system. They question why China is soft on North Korea's nuclear moves while being tough on the South, which opts for THAAD 'out of self-defense.' They also argue that economic sanctions should not be used as a weapon and it's particularly wrong to punish a company for state-to-state disputes. "

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