they view the deployment of this defense system as nothing more than a thinly availed attempt to try to constrain china. they see this attempt to work at the borders as just the latest south korean attempt to make china doesn't expand militarily the way beijing would like to, isa. >> yeah, and paula, this re-estimation of ties could be critical, could it not given what we have had from president trump. he previously questioned the cost of such alliances, going as far as saying during the election campaign that they should pay for their own defense. so how wary is the region of president trump, rather, and his america first policies? >> reporter: well, i think last week they were far more wary