Russia is to hold joint naval exercises with China in the South China Sea in September as tensions escalate over the fiercely contested islands.
China’s Defense Ministry insisted the “routine” drills were aimed at strengthening their co-operation and were not aimed at any other country.
But they come at a time of heightened tensions in the region after a UN-backed tribunal ruled this month that China did not have historic rights to the waters.
China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than $5 trillion of trade moves annually. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam have rival claims.
China has repeatedly blamed the United States for stoking tension in the region through its military patrols, and of taking sides in the dispute.
The United States has sought to assert its right to freedom of navigation in the South China Sea with its patrols and denies taking sides in the territorial disputes.
The old saying that the enemy of my enemy is my friend can be true in this instance with both China and Russia. Russia and China have a long history of conflict between the two, but since both seem to be ramping up conflicts and problems with the U.S., which has coincided with Barack Obama’s administration, it seems that we may be pushing the two former enemies into the arms of one another.
It is another example of Obama’s promise to mend fences with other nations which has, in fact, done exactly the opposite. The U.S. needs to reverse course and to deal with both Russia and China from a position of strength, but it may be too late, given the great damage Obama has done to our military.
Source: thesun.co.uk
Photo: Kremlin.ru [CC BY 4.0]
Good job Obama!
Prophecy, prophecy, prophecy.
Zulily
They’ve always done that
Russia is more our friend, than our own government.
yeah sleep on them.. just keep believing that.. they all ready know Hillary has rigged the system so they know we are an easy target.. as long as she gets money she knows caah rules everything
You can’t trust either one of them but then again we can’t even trust our own government
I BELIEVE PUTIN WILL DEAL WITH TRUMP AND TOGETHER WIPE ISIS OUT.BOTH LOVE THERE COUNTRYS AND PEOPLE.