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August 22, 2005
'Peace Mission 2005': An Analysis
Back on August 18, 2005, Sergei Karamayev recalled at MosNews.com that" "Apart from the anti-terrorist military exercises in Kazakhstan in the fall of 2003, the Peace Mission 2005 [currently underway between Russia and China] is the first mutual operation involving the defense ministries of two of the Pacific regions largest countries since the Korean War in the 1950s. Then, Soviet and Chinese pilots fought against U.S. aviation side by side. But then the relations between our two counties suddenly cooled, and this cooling took on forms of escalation, as in, for example, the battles over the Damansky island in 1968.
"Only after perestroika," Mr. Karamayev wrote, "the breakup of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in 1996 was military cooperation between China and Russia restored. And the current military training is testimony to that," he aded.
For more of this interesting analysis, see "China, Russia to Play Peace Mission 2005."
Posted by Munir Umrani at August 22, 2005 01:20 AM
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