Announcement comes as US hosting regional exercise with Japan, Australia, others
China and Russia will hold their “Joint Sea 2025” joint naval exercise in August, followed by the sixth joint maritime patrol in the Pacific, China’s National Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.
will take place in the sea and airspace near Vladivostok, Russia’s far eastern port city on the Sea of Japan. Some of the forces in the exercise will then take part in the subsequent joint patrol in designated ocean areas, according to ministry spokesman Zhang Xiaogang.
“This is an arrangement within the annual cooperation plan between the Chinese and Russian militaries. It is not targeted at any third party, nor is it related to the current international and regional situation,” Zhang told his monthly press briefing in Beijing.
He did not specify the dates of the drill or the size of the event.
