http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/08/22/018.html
Paratroopers Land on China's Coast The Associated Press China Newsphoto / Reuters Chinese amphibious tanks taking part in joint military exercises near China's Shandong Peninsula on Saturday. BEIJING -- Russian and Chinese paratroopers landed along China's northeastern coast over the weekend as some 9,000 soldiers from the two countries began the second stage of their historic first joint military exercises, news reports said. The war games are the result of warming ties between Moscow and Beijing, motivated by growing concern at U.S. dominance of world affairs. They started Thursday in Vladivostok. The exercise Saturday on the Shandong Peninsula, which juts into the Yellow Sea, was meant to simulate landing a joint force to stabilize a fictional country. A group of 86 paratroopers with 18 military vehicles landed at a Chinese training ground and practiced "reaching ... the assault position and the launching of an attack at enemy positions," Itar-Tass reported. About 7,000 Chinese troops and 1,800 Russians with ships, fighter planes and amphibious vehicles are taking part in "Peace Mission 2005," Chinese state television said. The exercises, which end Thursday, are meant to improve cooperation in "dealing with crises and organizing coordinated actions in the backdrop of the fight against terrorism, separatism and extremism," China's official Xinhua News Agency said. China's secretive military barred most foreign reporters from the exercises. Itar-Tass said Russian media were refused access to Chinese forces. Russian and Chinese officials tried last week to reassure their neighbors, saying the military exercises were not directed at any other country. The evening national news on Chinese state television showed Chinese and Russian officers gathered in a command center before computer screens showing maps of the exercise. The report showed Chinese soldiers driving tanks and troop carriers and preparing for parachute jumps, though it did not say when those activities occurred. It showed Russian fighters and cargo planes landing at a Chinese base and a Chinese schoolgirl giving a bouquet of flowers to a Russian naval officer. The weekend exercises were to include 14 ships and about 50 Russian and Chinese warplanes and the midair refueling of Russian-made Chinese Sukhoi-30 interceptors by a Russian flying tanker, Itar-Tass reported. The exercises are allowing Moscow to showcase military hardware that it hopes to sell to Beijing. Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.terror-hunters.com/> www.terror-hunters.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hh9bml3/M=362329.6886306.7839369.3040540/D=groups/S=1705323667:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124850626/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
