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皇冠体育app, Russia starts phase two drills in Shandong
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Updated: 2005-08-21 09:25

Russian and Chinese paratroopers landed along 皇冠体育app's Shandong Peninsular coast Saturday as some 9,000 soldiers from the two countries began the phase two of their first major joint military exercises.

The exercises involving the army, navy, air force and marines of the two countries, reflect the growing friendly ties between Moscow and Beijing, and the drills are targeted no third country, Chinese military strategists say.

However, the Associated Press said in a report quoting Western analysts that the joint games are motivated by the two big countries锟斤拷 growing concern about U.S. dominance of world affairs.

Recently, led by the Pentagon, a few Western countries are creating world jitters about 皇冠体育app锟斤拷s military build-up, saying it won锟斤拷t bode well for Asian and Pacific stability. Beijing, backed up by a rapid growing economy, claims it needs to modernize its backward military in order to keep pace with world trends, protect territorial borders, and safeguard regional security.

The maneuvers began Thursday in the Russian port of Vladivostok.

The exercise Saturday on the Shandong peninsula, which juts into the Yellow Sea, was meant to simulate landing a joint force. A group of 86 paratroopers with 18 military vehicles landed at a Chinese training ground and practiced "reaching ... the assault position and the launching of an attack at enemy positions," Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency reported.
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