These efforts were especially emphasized as Afghanistan, a Shanghai Cooperation Organization observer state, underwent a spike of unrest amid nationwide Taliban gains against the embattled forces of the internationally recognized Kabul-based government. Military representatives of these nations met Wednesday in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe to discuss regional affairs and express their unanimous support for joint security and counterterrorism measures such as the Peace Mission drills. The eight-member bloc includes both China and Russia as well as India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The games will be followed in September by the biennial Peace Mission exercise of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. In Beijing, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson Colonel Wu Qiang told reporters Thursday that such games play "an active role in enhancing the friendship between the Chinese military and the military of participating countries, including Russia, strengthening exchanges in the field of training and improving the level of actual combat training." On Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that a contingent of People's Liberation Army equipment had crossed the Sino-Russian border at Zabaikalsk station. In addition to their bilateral exercises, China and Russia are also to interact militarily with other nations as well.Īlso in August, China and Russia will participate alongside Belarus, Israel, Mongolia, Serbia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan for the annual International Army Games, which will run from August 22 to September 4. Wang Huawei/Wang Tao/Zhou Huancheng/Chinese People's Liberation Army rivals have intensified their diplomatic, economic and military relationship in recent years. While both powers have been critical of Washington's role in the conflict, they now see themselves as having to step up for the sake of stability and preventing any regional blowback.Ī Chinese instructor discusses Chinese rocket launcher systems during the second day of the code-named Interaction-2017 joint anti-terrorism training between the Chinese People’s Armed Police Force and the Russian Federation National Guard, in Qingtongxia, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on December 4, 2017. forces leave for the first time in 20 years. troops are set to near completion of their withdrawal from neighboring Afghanistan, a pullout intended to end by August 31.īoth Beijing and Moscow have expressed concerns over the future of Afghanistan as U.S. "The exercise is aimed to consolidate and develop the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination in the new era, deepen the practical cooperation and traditional friendship between the two militaries, and further demonstrate the two sides' resolve and capability to fight against terrorist forces and jointly safeguard regional peace and security," the statements added.Īs these exercises are playing out in China, U.S. The overriding goals were both political and tactical.
"The two sides' participating troops will be mixed into teams to make plans jointly and conduct training together," the statements said, "in a bid to verify and improve both troops' capabilities of joint reconnaissance, search and early warning, electronic information attack, and joint attack and elimination." The plan is to mix personnel from both sides for enhanced interoperability for the combined maneuvers involving an array of objectives. The two militaries are set to establish a joint command center overseeing the activities of some 10,000 troops along with various aircraft, artillery and armored equipment.
The Chinese Defense Ministry and Russian Defense Ministry issued a joint statement Thursday stating that the Western Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army will join troops from Russia's Eastern Military District for a large-scale exercise called West-Interaction 2021, which will be held in early and mid-August in the city of Qingtongxia, which lies along the Yellow River in China's northern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
China is set to host Russia for mass drills together involving counterterrorism training next month just as the last of the U.S.
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