The number of students from South Korea at Chinese universities and language institutes last year fell to less than a quarter of its peak of 73,240 in 2017, amid Seoul’s closer ties to Washington and a decline in China’s image among South Korean youth.
About 900 U.S. troops have deployed or will soon go to the Middle East to “further bolster U.S. force protection capabilities” in the region, the Pentagon’s top spokesman said Thursday. “These include forces that have been on prepare to deploy orders, and which are deploying from the continental United States,” press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat…
The Pentagon has announced plans to send a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) mobile anti-ballistic missile system and an undisclosed number of Patriot batteries to the Middle East. Sputnik turned to former US Office of the Secretary of Defense security policy analyst Michael Maloof to get a better sense of the broader regional picture.
The Pentagon announced the deployment of additional air defense systems and troops in response to “recent escalations by Iran and its proxy forces."The post US ups military posture in Middle