Slave to the Blog: August Catch-Up Edition I

No sooner do we go on vacation then the world goes to hell in a handbasket. More seriously, developments on the Korean peninsula are not good, and the problems have to do with growing rifts between the US and Korea on the one hand and China on the other. THAAD is the manifestation of these rifts, not its cause. Nonetheless, both sides are shutting down, believing the other has no interest in solving the problem. Moreover, these developments unfold in the broader regional context of the aftermath

Source: Peterson Institute (PIIE)