A staff member of medical team from the Chinese military gives medical check to a local woman at a school in Pitsanuloke Province, Thailand, Feb. 18, 2014. China has sent troops to attend the multilateral military exercise Cobra Gold, led by the United States and Thailand, for the first time. The seventeen-strong Chinese squad will take part in operations at the command and coordination center, engineering assistance, medical aid as well as discussions and exchanges of military medical sciences, according to officers with the foreign affairs office of the ministry. (Xinhua/Rachen Sageamsak) |