{"id":610521,"date":"2021-08-04T05:06:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T09:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=610521"},"modified":"2021-08-04T05:06:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T09:06:33","slug":"china-forges-closer-military-ties-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-forges-closer-military-ties-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"China Forges Closer Military Ties to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-forges-closer-military-ties-to-russia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=610521&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.711743772242\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Military exercises signal larger defense coordination and threaten U.S. security, experts say<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Putin-Xi-736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Putin-Xi-e1598463868344.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Putin-Xi-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Putin-Xi-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Putin-Xi-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tRussian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese president Xi Jinping \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 August 4, 2021 4:59 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"96.363751906457\">\n<p>Russia is joining China in a series of military exercises in August, a sign of growing coordination between the two countries that experts say threatens American security.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese propaganda newspaper <em>Global Times&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202108\/1230335.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that Moscow will dispatch Russian forces\u2014including aircraft and artillery\u2014to the Chinese province of Ningxia. The <em>Times<\/em> specifically sets the exercises in the context of &#8220;mutual trust&#8221; between the two militaries, which they say form a &#8220;backbone&#8221; against the United States in the region. This exercise is the first in which Russian troops trained on Chinese land, as opposed to earlier exercises in the Russian Far East or maritime demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>According to retired Air Force general Dave Stilwell, a former State Department official, the exercises warrant a closer study of China&#8217;s interest in working with the regime of Russian president Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s worth assessing why China is suddenly more serious about increasing cooperation with Russia,&#8221; Stilwell told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;The more Beijing can get Moscow to soak up U.S. attention and U.S. forces, the less Beijing will have to deal with in the Pacific.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The exercise is only the latest instance of Russian and Chinese cooperation on military projects. The two American adversaries have repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/russia-and-china-working-together-on-advanced-weaponry\/\">worked<\/a> together to field advanced weapons systems, such as submarines and missile warning systems, while also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/china-russia-tout-space-partnership-to-counter-u-s\/\">inking<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/china-russia-agree-to-build-joint-moon-base\/\">an agreement<\/a>&nbsp;to work together to counter American interests in space. And Russian defense technology has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/changing-nature-and-implications-russian-military-transfers-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">empowered<\/a>&nbsp;the Chinese Navy.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Weitz, the director of the Hudson Institute&#8217;s Center for Political-Military Analysis, said cooperation between Moscow and Beijing poses a major problem for U.S. defense planners. American resources could be stretched thin as the United States attempts to confront two rising hostile powers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even if it&#8217;s not a formal military alliance, it causes a lot of problems for us\u2014particularly in military technology\u2014and that could increase,&#8221; Weitz said.&nbsp;&#8220;There&#8217;s still perhaps insufficient attention to the combined effect of the partnership. The Russians and Chinese will never challenge each other. It gives the other comfort and tacitly encourages the other. The Russians would like it if the U.S. is distracted by China and vice versa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Recent Chinese efforts to close ranks with Russia build on a longstanding common interest between the two countries: undermining American leadership in global politics. Russia and China made a 2001 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/mfa_eng\/wjdt_665385\/2649_665393\/t15771.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compact<\/a> affirming &#8220;good neighborliness.&#8221; Russia recognizes democratic and free Taiwan as a Chinese territory. The Chinese are likewise committed to various forms of cooperation to guarantee regional stability. Beijing <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2014\/03\/china-backs-russia-on-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refused<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/media.hudson.org\/Weitz%20China-Russia%20Defense%20Partnership%20FINAL%20Web%205.13.19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">join<\/a> Western powers in condemning Russia&#8217;s incursions into Georgia and Ukraine. Chinese president Xi Jinping has&nbsp;called&nbsp;Putin a &#8220;best friend&#8221; of China, and the two countries often come to one another&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/russia-and-china-reject-u-n-report-on-north-korean-sanctions-violations\/\">aid<\/a> at forums such as the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Ivana Stradner, a Jeane Kirkpatrick fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said that Russian cooperation with China should be especially alarming in cyberspace. In the early months of the Biden administration, China and Russia attacked vital American cyber infrastructure with great success but little rebuke from the White House. A June <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rusemb.org.uk\/fnapr\/7007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accord<\/a> between Moscow and Beijing says they have the right to regulate the internet and repress dissent within their borders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Cyberspace] is the arena where both countries have mutual goals,&#8221; Stradner said. &#8220;Both countries want political cover to censor the internet and to claim cyber sovereignty. With Chinese support, a Russian-led U.N. cybercrime resolution (under the guise of fighting crime) will likely serve as an instrument that undermines human rights, internet freedom, and restricts the freedom of expression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Military exercises signal larger defense coordination and threaten U.S. security, experts say  Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese president Xi Jinping \/ Getty Images &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}