Posted on 09/06/2005 9:43:30 AM PDT by REactor
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said today Russia and China plan to intensify military cooperation, including the use of more joint military exercises.
However he stressed that Moscow and Beijing will not seal a formal alliance into a military bloc. Ivanov was speaking after meeting his Chinese counterpart Cao Gangchuan in Moscow.
The meeting came after the two states carried out their first ever joint military exercises last month in the Shandong Peninsula in China's northeast.
Ivanov said the exercises went well: "The overall assessment of these exercises both by China and Russia is positive. These [exercises] allowed us to achieve a new quality of our mature strategic partnership."
Cao noted the two militaries demonstrated a "high level of partnership" during the exercises. Analysts say a shared concern over a perceived dominant role of the United States in global affairs has brought the former Cold War rivals China and Russia closer together.
Cao ends his official visit to Russia on 10 September.
New axis power.
Until China decides that it wants the natural resources that Russia holds out in Siberia....
New axis power.
Historcally Russia has been known to over estimate it's military might.
The fact they are cooperating with the Chinese suggest they feel they could defeat a Chinese invasion.
They are deadly wrong.
A marriage of convenience, to be sure. Let's hope it doesn't last long enough to be to our detriment.
"Until China decides that it wants the natural resources that Russia holds out in Siberia...."
That is what I was thinking also. China could very well start WWIII of using Taiwan as bait. They attack Taiwan, we defend them, WWIII starts. But at the end of the day it is a heck of a lot easier for China and her ground based military might to invade Russia with huge energy recources.
Should I prepare the Divorce Papers, Or you will take care of that? <Sarcasm
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