2023-08-18 13:08:37
In the video from the Russian agency Tass, we can see nine large ships in formation and crews standing at attention on the bridge, says the RFI correspondent in Beijing, Stephane Lagarde. On the Chinese side, on the WeChat account of the Eastern Command Theater of the People’s Liberation Army, soldiers doing push-ups under the breaking waves or running on a beach blocked by anti-landing buildings.
At no time do these propaganda films mention Taiwan or the United States-Japan-Korea tripartite summit this Friday at Camp David.
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This operation does not target any third party and has no connection with the current situation at the international level, the spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Defense saw fit to specify on Monday about these new Sino-Russian exercises. No relation, but we think about it very strongly.
Beijing and Moscow stand together against what is considered here as the “new NATO of Asia”. ” Members of the two countries’ navies conducted anti-submarine drills, repelled an air attack from a fictional enemy and carried out sea rescue drills “, we specify on the side of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Soldiers from the Eastern Command Theater are “ ready to fight all the time and in all weathers “, hammers the Chinese propaganda.
Ahead of these maneuvers, the Chinese Minister of Defense, Li Shangfu, was in Russia this week to participate in the 11th Moscow conference on national security. Previous joint Sino-Russian naval combat training dates back to July 20 in the Sea of Japan.
Japan, which says it dispatched fighter jets on Friday August 18 after Russian patrol planes were spotted between the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea, announced the country’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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