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China, Russia join for unprecedented combat games
Associated Press
Published August 18, 2005
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Russian navy ships and long-range bombers headed Wednesday to a Chinese peninsula jutting into the Yellow Sea for the first joint military exercises between the two nations.
Moscow and Beijing will stage "Peace Mission 2005," a mock intervention to stabilize an imaginary country riven by ethnic strife. They say the exercises - which were to start today and include 10,000 troops - aren't aimed at a third country.
Analysts call the maneuvers mostly an exhibition of Russian arms in the hope of luring Chinese buyers. Still, both countries will be looking to prove their military might during the eight days of war games.
The exercises mark a shift in the Chinese military's policy from its inward focus, said Robert Karniol, Asia-Pacific editor for military journal Jane's Defense Weekly.
"They've come to accept multilateral solutions and accepted the understanding there are things to learn from exercising with other countries," he said.
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