With The U.S. and Japan gazing lovingly at each other over defense issues and Northern Europe looking quite serious indeed about keeping foreign subs out of its waters this week, Chinese and Russian are getting set to hold their first ever joint naval exercises on the Mediterranean. This month, the countries’ ships will conduct live fire drills which are aimed at increasing preparedness for cooperation and definitely, certainly, totally, not even a little bit aimed at jabbing the West in the metaphorical ribs. USNI has the key quote:
“The purpose of the exercise is to strengthen the pragmatic cooperation between China …read more
Source: The American Interest
