Reaffirming China’s defense policy, Chang said the PLA will provide additional public security through enhanced participation in United Nations peacekeeping, counterterrorism, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief missions.
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“This is a routine exercise between the two armed forces, aimed at strengthening the developing China-Russia strategic cooperative partnership”, China’s defense ministry spokesman Yang Yujun told a regular monthly news conference. While Russia is at odds with U.S over the crisis in Syria and as well as NATO’s expansion in the Eastern Europe, China detests United States intervention in the South China Sea.
I don’t know what exercises they are planning, but in the same way the United States and China have a military-to-military relationship, I’m not surprised that Russian Federation and China are seeking to build upon their military-to-military relationship as well. Vietnam also has overlapping claims to parts of the sea, which is rich in natural resources, and together with the Philippines has been a vocal critic of China. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam have rival claims.
The U.S. which carried out air and naval patrols in the area to assert freedom of navigation has asked Beijing to accept the verdict, saying it is binding.
Russian Federation has been a strong backer of China’s stance on the arbitration case, which was brought by the Philippines.
“These drills deepen mutual trust and expand cooperation, raise the ability to jointly deal with security threats, and benefit the maintenance of regional and global peace and stability”, he said. The hackers reportedly compromised the airports’ audio and video systems, in an attempt to show offensive and threatening messages, including claims that the East Vietnam Sea belonged to China.
After the hacking Friday evening, authorities switched off the screens and the sound systems at Hanoi’s Noi Bai airport and the Tan Son Nhat airport in southern Ho Chi Minh City, the online VnExpress said. Vietnam Airlines’ website was also briefly hacked and the national transport ministry blamed a Chinese hacker for the crime. Not noted is that Ross is a professor at Beijing’s Renmin University and a frequent defender of China’s policies in state-run media.
1937cN teAm, one of the best-known and most powerful hacker groups in China, has been alleged of carrying the attacks as its logo appeared on the hacked screen. Reuters was not able to immediately verify the content of the messages. In that statement, Australia said that the US and Japan last week called for China to follow the Arbitration ruling on the South China Sea conflict.
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“I would hope my parliamentary record has demonstrated that I have consistently raised concern over Chinese island-building and military deployment in the South China Sea, and indeed I have urged the UK Government to do all it can to ensure worldwide law is upheld and that the region is stabilised for all parties concerned”, she continued.
