White House spokesman John Kirby said the US will monitor joint military exercises between Russia and China. The briefing was published on: YouTube channel Reuters agency.
“This is a long-planned process that we will be monitoring and tracking,” a White House official said.
According to him, the United States is not very afraid of the exercises and Washington does not intend to adjust the position of its military forces or its deterrence strategy.
On September 9, the Ministry of Defense of the People’s Republic of China announced that the country will participate in Russia’s Ocean-2024 strategic command center exercises. However, the ministry did not specify the dates on which they will be held. The Chinese Ministry of Defense also announced that the Russian military will send military personnel from its navy and aviation forces to participate in the Northern exercises held by China in September “Interaction-2024”, which will take place in the sea waters and airspace of the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk.
At the end of August, a military delegation from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army arrived. visited Moscow to discuss military cooperation issues.
July 15-17 in the South China Sea passed Joint Russian-Chinese naval exercises “Naval Cooperation – 2024”. During the maneuvers, reconnaissance and search of ships and submarines of a potential enemy were carried out.
Previously published in the New York Times wrote On US concerns about military exercises between Russia and China.
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