China, Russia Enhance Military Cooperation in Response to US Missile Threat

Tuesday, October 18, 2016
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
18.10.2016

The expansion of Sino-Russian military cooperation to include joint missile defense exercises is an important landmark in bilateral relations, military expert Vasily Kashin told Sputnik.

Last week the 7th Xiangshan Security Forum was held in Beijing, organized by the Chinese Association of Military Sciences and the Chinese Institute for International Strategic Studies.

Speaking at the forum, Major-General Cai Jun of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (CPLA) announced that China and Russia will carry out their second joint missile defense military exercises next year.

The plan follows the successful computerized joint exercise by the Russian and Chinese missile defense command in May this year. The joint exercises are set to become Russia and China’s third annual set of joint military exercises, in addition to the “Peace Mission” and “Naval Interaction” drills.

Vasily Kashin, senior fellow at the Russian Academy of Science’s Far Eastern Studies Institute, told Sputnik that May’s computerized exercises were modeled on China’s HQ-9 anti-aircraft missile systems, which can be used to shoot down short-range ballistic missiles and some types of medium-range missiles.

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