Vice Minister of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television Zhang Hongsen attends a news conference during the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Beijing, October 20, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
BEIJING (Reuters) - Cultural exchanges between countries need to consider the "temperature" of popular opinion and how people feel about each other, a senior Chinese official said on Friday, amid a freeze in cultural ties with South Korea over an anti-missile system.
China has been angered by Seoul's decision to deploy the U.S.-made Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, saying that its powerful radar harms China's own national security and will do nothing to lessen tensions with North Korea, which THAAD is supposed to defend against.
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