Sometimes, underestimating your allies is just as dangerous as underestimating your enemy.
Alloy and temper consistency. Quality Control in China is not exactly cultural. They have some skilled tradesmen and engineers. They just don't have the culture built around those principles. The masses work a factory without really knowing the theory behind what they are doing. Lead… Copper… Eh, it all looks the same in the primary melt furnace. Metal is metal, right?
Even when they get that straightened out, you also have the temper/quench that radically influences the molecular structure. A mild steel with a good and appropriate temper can surpass the properties of a higher grade steel with no attention paid to temper.
It's why the Chinese have so much difficulty with aluminum and other age-hardened metal alloys. You actually have to heat the structure in stages for certain lengths of time before cooling at specified rates to properly form the crystalline structures and relieve the internal stresses. If they have as much trouble with Steel as I have seen from experience, then it's a damned wonder their aircraft don't spontaneously disintegrate in the air.
I don't think there has been a single ROK president who has successfully held their office to term. They are all impeached on some corruption charge or another.
Or was there ever a missile to begin with?
I would not be so quick to suggest the U.S. missiles were intercepted or that they missed their targets. The Syrians were firing missiles in the hopes they could radiate a wide area and the missile could still pick up the return. Desperation in the world of air warfare (but not without merit).
Or… Were they just putting on a show? By the time POTUS announced the strike, the missiles would have already been launched and on their way.
In any event, I think it is more probable that we hit targets that were not what the cabal wanted. So, Israel stepped up to the plate and took a swing and a miss.