Naval Exercises + Joint Military Drills in The South China Sea

The China-Russia Joint Sea-2024 naval exercise is an important display by China and Russia in the current international environment, not only at the military level, but also at the political and strategic level. Through this high-level military cooperation, China and Russia have not only strengthened bilateral relations, but also demonstrated their capabilities and determination to maintain regional peace and stability on a global scale. It is time for the West to abandon its prejudice of China-Russia relations and stop hyping the joint drills. 

China-Russia Joint Military Exercises In South China Sea

16 Juli 2024, 16:21 | Editorial Team 

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JAKARTA - China and Russia held a naval exercise with direct fire in the South China Sea this week. The two countries have strengthened military and trade ties in recent years following US sanctions.

Nature of China-Russia naval drills fundamentally differs from that of US-led exercises

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This is in stark contrast to the US-led military exercises. 

The Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 is still ongoing, with a key part of the drills being the sinking a 40,000-ton target ship aimed at showing off the capability to destroy a Chinese amphibious assault ship or aircraft carrier amid current tensions in the Taiwan Straits and the South China Sea. Additionally, in February of this year, US Marines, sailors and Japanese troops practiced the recapturing of an island during their Iron Fist 24 exercise amid concerns about the mainland's "military moves" around the island of Taiwan. Joint military exercises led by the US typically designate other countries, particularly China and Russia, as hypothetical enemies and are often offensive in nature. As a result, they tend to measures others' corn by their own bushels and use their own perspectives to speculate on China-Russia military exercises.
It is clear that the nature of China-Russia naval drills fundamentally differs from that of US-led exercises. The joint exercise of China and Russia does not target any third party, but US-led drills directly view China as an enemy, displaying a hegemonic and zero-sum mentality. While the purpose of the US-led drills is to break power balance in the region and jeopardize regional stability, China-Russia drills are defensive and aimed at maintaining regional peace and stability.

China, Russia carried out live-fire naval exercises in South China Sea

By Joe Cash

July 17, 20242:03 AM PDT Updated 11 hours ago

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[1/2]The Russian corvette Gromky enters the port of Zhanjiang during the Joint Sea-2024 China-Russia naval exercise, in Zhanjiang, China, in this still image from video released July 13, 2024. Russian Defence Ministry/Handout via REUTERS / File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab

BEIJING, July 17 (Reuters) - China and Russia carried out live-fire naval exercises in the South China Sea this week, Russian and Chinese state media reported, with the two countries having strengthened military and trade ties in recent years following U.S. sanctions.

Both countries were to deploy at least three vessels each for the three-day exercises, China's state controlled Global Times newspaper said late on Tuesday, citing the People's Liberation Army Navy.

The opening ceremony of the Russian-Chinese naval exercise 'Maritime Cooperation - 2024' took place in the Chinese port of Zhanjiang, the Russian defence ministry said earlier this week on the Telegram messaging app.

During their sea manoeuvres, the crews of ships of the Russian Pacific Fleet and the PLA Navy were to conduct joint air defense exercises and anti-submarine drills with the involvement of PLA naval anti-submarine aviation, the Russian defence ministry said.

Russia's RIA state news agency reported on Tuesday, citing Russia's Pacific Fleet, that the Russian Navy and the Chinese Navy conducted artillery firing as part of the joint drills.

The drills follow the completion of a separate joint naval patrol in the north Pacific, which the Russian defence ministry said earlier involved a detachment of Russia's Pacific Fleet ships, including two corvettes, the Rezky and the Gromky.

Wang Guangzheng of the PLA Navy's Southern Theatre told Chinese state broadcaster CCTV on Tuesday that: "the China-Russia joint patrol has promoted the deepening and practical cooperation between the two in multiple directions and fields."

"And effectively enhanced the ability to the two sides to jointly respond to maritime security threats."

The participating vessels set off from Zhanjiang in southern China's Guangdong province on Monday, the report added, citing a PLA Navy statement.

The report did not specify where in the contested waterway the drills took place.

On Tuesday in the same sea, the United States and Philippine coast guards also conducted joint training, a bilateral search and rescue exercise, according to a statement by the U.S. Navy released on Wednesday.

The operations, involving a U.S. Coast Guard cutter from the U.S. 7th Fleet and a Philippine patrol vessel, included a joint sail and search and rescue training, personnel transfer evolutions, and bilateral sailing.

"We look forward to fostering our relationship as we strive to preserve a free and open Indo-Pacific," U.S. Navy Captain Tyson Scofield, who commands the Coast Guard cutter, said in the statement, which added that such operations help develop tactical interoperability across allied navies in the Indo-Pacific.

China claims control over almost the entire South China Sea, including the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, where the Philippines maintains a rusty warship that it deliberately grounded in 1999 to reinforce its maritime claims and has been central to a recent standoff between the two countries.

The rising tensions have led U.S. officials to remind Beijing that their mutual defence treat obligations with the Philippines are ironclad.

China and Russia declared a "no limits" partnership in 2022 when President Vladimir Putin visited Beijing just days before the invasion of Ukraine. China has still not condemned the invasion and has stepped up its exports to Russia, helping Moscow keep its war economy afloat.

The "no limits" partnership saw two-way trade hit a record of $240.1 billion in 2023, up 26.3% from a year earlier, according to Chinese customs data.

China-U.S. trade fell 11.6% last year to $664.5 billion, Chinese customs data show

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