Chinese and Russian forces will participate in joint army training in southern Russia later this month with troops from Armenia, Belarus, Iran, Myanmar, Pakistan and others, The Chinese Ministry of Defense announced Thursday.
“Caucus 2020” training will deploy cars with wheels and small arms to be sent to the drill through the latest edition of the Chinese transport plane, the ministry said in a press release.
Exercises from September 21-26 will focus on defensive tactics, fence and battlefield and command, the ministry said.
Training is of particular importance for Chinese-Russian relations “at a time when the global total is fighting the pandemic,” the ministry said. China has not noticed any new cases of domestic coronavirus in weeks, while Russia continues to see new cases and has reported more than one million people inflamed.
Since the status quo of a “comprehensive strategic partnership” two decades ago, China and Russia have increasingly cooperated in military and diplomatic problems, largely to counter American influence. Their armies conduct joint training and assist the United Nations in problems such as Syria and North Korea.
The long-planned plan will take a position this month amid the growing animosity between the United States and Beijing and Moscow.
Russia is expanding U. S. government tension over prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s alleged poisoning, as well as a litany of other issues of controversy, adding war in Syria and Russia’s continued interference in U. S. policy.
The United States has intercepted Russian army aircraft several times in recent months, prompting accusations by the U. S. military of reckless behavior.
China, meanwhile, has been accused across Washington of intimidating its small neighbors, exercising full control over the recently semi-autonomous Hong Kong region and forcing around one million minority Muslims to labour camps in the Xinjiang region.
Relations are so strained that a reputable Chinese newspaper published an article Wednesday saying there were discussions in the upper echelons of the ruling Communist Party about whether the “nuclear option” should be used to cut off america’s important source of medicine.
India had also planned to participate in Caucasus army training in 2020 in Russia, but cancelled its participation as tensions between Delhi and Beijing increased.
In a Tweet of 29 August, india’s Ministry of Defence showed that it will no longer deploy forces to participate in the exercises. The measure has been attributed to logistical ”’ difficulties similar to the coronavirus pandemic, but came after a long border confrontation between the two Asian giants that first became fatal in decades, with at least 20 forces of Indian women killed in a confrontation. June.
A week before India announced the cancellation of their participation, New Delhi and Beijing again accused the wary of violating border rules, which led to warning shots for the first time in many years. Death in June did not result in gunshots, but melee. fight with clubs and other rudimentary weapons.