The US Navy has redeployed an amphibious strike group originally bound for the Middle East to the South China Sea, a move experts say may signal Washington shifting its focus back to the Pacific region after months of distractions from the Iran war. The United States began turning its military attention to the Middle East early this year, moving global military assets, including those in the Pacific, nearer to Iran. Among those assets was the USS Tripoli group, which is based in Sasebo, Japan,...