Balanced News: US to base mobile Marine unit on Japan’s Okinawa island

The United States and Japan have agreed to further boost their military alliance with a plan to deploy a new Marine unit to an island chain near Taiwan amid rising strategic challenges from China. The two sides announced a military alliance-updating plan that includes the deployment of a new mobile Marine unit in Japan’s southern island of Okinawa. Such attacks “present a clear challenge to the security of the alliance” and could invoke Article Five of