14 SEPT, 2018 11:00 HRS GMT (+3) | CHINA-RUSSIA-MONGOLIA JOINT MILITARY EXERCISE
MOSCOW – Russia’s military exercises with China this week seen as a massive Military Exercise Ever conducted before since Soviet Era. Other International Powers may have never been conducted such exercise in 21st century, so called by Western Allied Powers.
The Vostok 2018 War games Exercise, Russia’s largest since 1981 in the Soviet era, involve more than 300,000 troops – including 3,200 from China and a contingent from Mongolia.
Chinese officials said, the focus of this Military Drill expanded from the anti-terrorism manoeuvres of previous exercises to counter-attack manoeuvres, development of defense skills as well as the building of mutual trust with Russia to built a better and sustainable economy in the region.
“The drill has raised the capabilities of the military in both nations to handle security threats,” Shao Yuanming, deputy chief of the joint staff department of the People’s Liberation Army said on Wednesday. “This drill is also an important test of the combat abilities of our military.”
The Massive Military Exercise shows more than 36,000 Russian military vehicles and 1,000 Chinese vehicles, the exercises, which began since Tuesday and run until Saturday, are being conducted as relations between China and the United States fray, particularly over trade.
Russia is also facing US and European Union sanctions that have brought economic pressure in the global market.
China’s military learns the art of the counter-attack in extremely tough region.
A Professor of international Relation of Chinese University, said that Western Power should not see this massive joint military exercise as a threat instead to strengthen Security between the trio nations which have cultural, trade relations since prehistoric era. The European policy maker closely monitoring how Moscow and Beijing sidelines their mutual disagreement in some issues and deepened their mutual cooperation to boost economy between the two major powers.
Vostok 2018: a showcase of Russian military might and ties with China
The closer ties between China and Russia strengthen due to US Sanction as seen by many countries. The Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that both nations had to oppose trade protectionism. While attending the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, Vladimir Putin told Xi that China and Russia had a relationship of trust “in the sphere of politics, security, trade and defense”.
Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin agree to boost ties amidst growing Unilateralism and US Sanction
According to Journalistic view in major parts of Asian, American and European community assumes and presumes that growing relationship between the two countries raising alarm of splitting the world between US-led market economies and countries that viewed US as a threat in term of economic sanctions. a very popular tools in western world, to siege economy by mean of a legitimate practices often used by United Nations as well.
The Historic data suggests that the massive Military Drill by great powers often see as a preparation of World War which seems to be inevitable in some extent, according to an opinion of tactical defense experts.