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- China and Russia are planning to hold joint military exercises for the first time in more than 30 years, a report said yesterday. The drills, which will take place sometime in August, will involve all three branches of the armed forces from both countries, according to a report on Taiwan's ETtoday.com website. War games involving the Chinese and Russian armies will take place in north-eastern China, while their navies and air forces will conduct drills in the Yellow Sea. The report said it showed that Sino-Russian military interaction, previously limited to arms purchases and mutual expressions of support on international issues, has since progressed to strategic cooperation

So much for the naysayers that said the Sino-Russian alliance signed in July 2001 was disrupted and perhaps even 'killed' in the aftermath of 9-11 and following the formation of a new US "strategic partnership" with Russia in the war against terrorism. The Sino-Russian alliance is fast to progressing to a full-scale NATO-type military alliance between the most powerful nuclear superpower in the world and the most populous country in the world with the biggest army in the world. The US ought to take note of this new global peer-competitor.