Russian, Chinese, and Mongolian flags fly from vehicles at the head of a parade in review at the Tsugol training ground in Eastern Russia, near the Chinese and Mongolian borders. Russian Ministry of Defense
Ars Technica: Russia, China become battle buddies at Vostok 2018
Gallery: Huge Russian military exercise turns into a Russia / China gun show.
The last time that Russia mounted a military exercise the size of this week's Vostok 2018 event, "Russia" was the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev was General Secretary, and Ronald Reagan had just been elected president of the United States. That was 1981, at the height of the Cold War. Now, with a distinct chill in relations with the United States well underway, the Russian Federation has put over 300,000 troops in the field—alongside tens of thousands of tanks, helicopters, and weapons of every sort—for a huge war game in Russia's far eastern reaches. And the country has invited the Chinese People's Liberation Army to play along, as well as the Mongolian General Purpose Force.
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Analysis And Commentary On The Growing Russia - China Military Alliance
The West needs to watch Russia and China's military partnership -- Mary Ilyushina and Nathan Hodge, CNN
Russia’s military dalliance with China -- Wesley Morgan, Politico
It's Not Too Late to Prevent a Russia-China Axis -- Anja Manuel, The Atlantic
Putin's war games send signal to West, but Russia-China alliance unlikely -- Fred Weir, CSM
China May Meet Russia for War Games, But That Doesn’t Make Them Allies -- Ian Bremmer, Time
Large war games distract from the complexity of China-Russia ties -- J Berkshire Miller, Al Jazeera
What will keep China and Russia from building a new world order? -- Wesley Rahn, DW
2 comments:
Not worried; the US is the great Naval power and Russia and China are great land powers. Next to them are numerous large land powers who do not like them. No concerns others than Nukes.
Michael,
I strongly agree.
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