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Russia, China open first joint military exercises
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-08-18 16:21

China and Russia began their first joint military exercises on Thursday aimed at boosting cooperation between the former adversaries, the Reuters reported.

Eight days of war games between the giant neighbors, who share a 4,300-km (2,700-mile) border, also present a commercial opportunity for Russia, China's biggest supplier of arms and weapons technology, to flog its wares, analysts say.

Both countries say "Peace Mission 2005," which involves 10,000 troops and army, navy and air force exercises, is aimed at building ties between their militaries and analysts say it is not targeted at any third country.

"Military cooperation is linked with political and economic cooperation as part of a bigger package," said Robert Karniol, Asia-Pacific editor for Jane's Defense Weekly. "It's not an adversarial posture."

The drills helped to strengthen the capability of the two armed forces in jointly striking international terrorism, extremism and separatism, Xinhua news agency said.

Once Cold War foes, ties between Beijing and Moscow have been growing closer, in part due to China's efforts to tap into Russian energy resources to feed its booming economy. The two are also players in six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear crisis, reflecting shared security interests.

STABILITY

Russia and China also see common ground in Central Asia, both in trying to ensure political turmoil in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan does not spill into their borders and in checking the U.S. presence in the region, the Reuter report said.

In July, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional security forum grouping China and Russia with the Central Asian states, told U.S.-led troops to fix a date for their departure from military bases in the region.

That, along with the fact observers from other SCO countries will be at the war games, is further fuelling theories they are intended to send a message to Washington, Reuters said.

"This is above all an assault on the uni-polar world that has so suited Washington since the end of the Cold War," Russian daily Nezavismaya gazeta said.

The United States said the exercises supported a shared goal of regional stability, but added a word of caution.

"We would hope that anything that they do is not something that would be disruptive to the current atmosphere in the region," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.

The exercises are taking place in the Russian Pacific near Vladivostok and in the Chinese coastal province of Shandong and run through August 25.

With China gradually overhauling its military, streamlining troop numbers and buying high-tech weapons platforms from abroad, the war games are more likely to result in a shopping spree than any aggressive posturing, Reuters said.

Analysts say rather than cause alarm, the exercises should also be seen as making both militaries behave with more transparency and in line with international norms.

 
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