The announcement highlights warming ties between Beijing and Moscow after decades of Cold War hostility. Their reconciliation has been driven in part by mutual unease at U.S. power and a fear of Islamic extremism in Central Asia.
The exercises with army, navy and air forces will take place on China's Shandong peninsula and in the Russian city of Vladivostok and in nearby waters, the Defence Ministry said. It didn't give details of planned activities.
The exercises are meant to “strengthen the capability of the two armed forces in jointly striking international terrorism, extremism and separatism,” the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Xinhua News Agency.
The Defence Ministry tried to reassure China's neighbours, saying the exercises “neither aim at any third party nor concern ... the interests of any third country.”
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China, Russia To Hold Joint Military Exercise
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boy.
-Parliament of Whores
China could be a real threat to Canada in the future, especially since their corrupt socialist/communist policies will mean that they will have to find others to blame for the inevitable problems. They're already using nationalism and xenophobia to whip up their population since communism is such an obvious failure.
Yup. even written down, I still don't see how those fit together . . .
And yet, when we as Canadians apply the same measure to the United States' obvious deisre for complete econmic and political control over Canada that China appears to have for the US, we're also anti-American. But Americans are somehow not anti-Chinese, they are 'patriots'. Hmmmmm.
A little too quick to play the 'anti-' card there Anon.
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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill
As American Pat Buchanan (what do you think about him?) has noted, there are only 8 million Russians east of the Urals, who aren't doing very well, and there are 1.25 billion Chinese just south. Ick.
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The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfield deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.
- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, The Iraqi Informat
And, are you seriously saying that this site is not all about anti-Americanism? That's the only form of patriotism Canadians are officially allowed to have!
Pat Buchannan. *phtooie*.
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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill
Your freerepubic mentality bores me. And no, I didn't make a spelling mistake.
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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill
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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill
If I were kidding, I wouldn't waste my time asking this 'simple' question of the trolls.
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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill
The Americans may be jerks, but at least I can sleep without worrying about their nuclear warheads falling into the hands of commie spies.