{"id":2053,"date":"2025-08-03T11:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T11:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/03\/china-and-russia-begin-joint-military-drills-in-sea-of-japan\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T11:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T11:37:41","slug":"china-and-russia-begin-joint-military-drills-in-sea-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/03\/china-and-russia-begin-joint-military-drills-in-sea-of-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"China and Russia begin joint military drills in Sea of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joint Sea-2025 exercises begin in waters near Russian port of Vladivostok and will last for three days, China\u2019s Defence Ministry says.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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China and Russia have begun joint naval drills in the Sea of Japan as they seek to reinforce their partnership and counterbalance what they see as a United States-led global order.<\/p>\n

The Chinese and Russian governments have deepened<\/a> their ties in recent years, with China providing an economic lifeline to Russia in the face of Western sanctions over Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The Joint Sea-2025 exercises began in waters near the Russian port of Vladivostok and will last for three days, China\u2019s Ministry of National Defence said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The two sides will hold \u201csubmarine rescue, joint anti-submarine, air defence and anti-missile operations, and maritime combat\u201d.<\/p>\n

Four Chinese vessels, including guided-missile destroyers Shaoxing and Urumqi, are participating in the exercises, alongside Russian ships, the ministry said.<\/p>\n

After the drills, the two countries will conduct naval patrols in \u201crelevant waters of the Pacific\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping [File: Kenzaburo Fukuhara\/Handout via Getty Images]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

China and Russia have carried out annual drills for several years, with the \u201cJoint Sea\u201d exercises beginning in 2012.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s drills were held along China\u2019s southern coast.<\/p>\n

With this year\u2019s drills in the Sea of Japan, in its annual report last month, Japan\u2019s Ministry of Defence warned that China\u2019s growing military cooperation with Russia poses serious security concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe exercise is defensive in nature and is not directed against other countries,\u201d the Russian Navy Pacific Fleet said earlier this week, according to a report by the US Naval Institute\u2019s online news and analysis portal.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the Chinese Defence Ministry said this year\u2019s exercises were aimed at \u201cfurther deepening the comprehensive strategic partnership\u201d of the two countries.<\/p>\n

China has never denounced Russia\u2019s more than three-year war<\/a> nor called for it to withdraw its troops, and many of Ukraine\u2019s allies, including the US, believe that Beijing has provided support to Moscow.<\/p>\n

European leaders asked China last month to use its influence to pressure Russia to end the war, now in its fourth year, but there was no sign that Beijing would do so.<\/p>\n

China, however, insists it is a neutral party, regularly calling for an end to the fighting while also accusing Western countries of prolonging the conflict by arming Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joint Sea-2025 exercises begin in waters near Russian port of Vladivostok and will last for three days, China\u2019s Defence Ministry says. China and Russia have begun joint naval drills in the Sea of Japan as they seek to reinforce their partnership and counterbalance what they see as a United States-led global order. The Chinese and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}