South Korea’s combat-proven, interoperable and geopolitically accessible surface-to-air missiles could hinder China’s efforts to sell its own defence systems to the Middle East, analysts have suggested.
The US-Israel war on Iran has been marked by tit-for-tat missile and drone attacks across the Persian Gulf states, driving a surge in demand for surface-to-air missiles to defend against incoming Iranian aerial threats.
According to a study by the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a…
Will South Korea’s ‘Goldilocks’ missile dent China’s Middle East arms ambitions?
