Twelve Military exercises: A chronology
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-08-19 05:49

The current co-operative military exercises with Russia are the 12th with foreign armed forces since October 2002. The following is a chronology:

October 10-11, 2002, with Kyrgyzstan Joint anti-terror exercise along the common border. First bilateral anti-terror exercise conducted by members of the Shanghai Co-operation Organization (SCO).

August 6-12, 2003, with SCO member nations Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan First anti-terror exercise within the framework of the SCO and China's first participation in multilateral joint manoeuvres.

August 25, 2003 China invited 27 foreign military observers from 15 countries to watch manoeuvres at its largest tactical drill base in Inner Mongolia.

October 22, 2003, with Pakistan Joint naval search-and-rescue exercise near Shanghai in the East China Sea. First naval joint exercise with a foreign counterpart since 1949.

November 14, 2003, with India Joint naval search-and-rescue exercise off the coast of Shanghai in the East China Sea, the first between the two nations.

March 16, 2004, with France First maritime drills with its French counterpart, in the East China Sea near Qingdao, Shandong Province.

June 20, 2004, with the United Kingdom First maritime drills with its UK counterpart, in the East China Sea.

August 6, 2004, with Pakistan Anti-terrorism exercise between the PLA and the Armed Forces of Pakistan along the common border in Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

August 28, 2004, with India Frontier troops of both countries held joint mountaineering training, the first of its kind between the two armed forces, in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

September 2, 2004 Officials from China, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Mexico observed an amphibian landing exercise involving about 50 servicemen in Shanwei, Guangdong Province.

September 25, 2004 A practice with live ammunition in the Queshan Training Base in Henan Province. About 60 foreign military officers from 16 countries observed the exercise at the training base affiliated with the PLA's Jinan Military Area Command.

August 18, 2004 First Chinese-Russian joint military exercise, code-named "Peace Mission 2005."

(China Daily 08/19/2005 page2)

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