Quietly, with almost no notice taken in the U.S. media, Russia and China have just stepped up their military cooperation to a level not seen in half a century since the end of the Korean War. The exercises will be on a vast scale and will also involve air force and navy units of both nations, including submarines. The large scale of conventional forces involved suggests that international terrorism may not be the only hypothetical enemy the Russian and Chinese forces will practice deploying against. While not a single statement about the exercises mentioned the United States, U.S. policy in...