It took massive political and alliance capital to move the THAAD system to South Korea in 2016-2018. China pushed back hard and eventually lost because the ROK concluded their security and sovereignty came first and China didn’t get a veto power. This is the reality of how things have unfolded in CENTCOM but also a very unfortunate outcome for the US-ROK alliance. What are we doing to reassure Seoul this is temporary? What is our messaging on the decision? Is our posture in INDOPACOM from a year ago now net-negative after this decision?