CHINA-RUSSIA: CHINESE AND RUSSIAN ARMED FORCES TO SEND TEN THOUSAND PERSONNEL EACH FOR 'ZAPAD/INTERACTION-2021' MILITARY EXERCISE IN NINGXIA-HUI AR

PLA Colonel Wu Qian, spokesman for China's Ministry of National Defence announced at a press briefing on July 29, that  Russia and China will be holding the 'Zapad/Interaction-2021' exercise in the Qingtongxia Joint Tactical Training Base in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region from early to mid-August. This is the first joint drill that the PLA is conducting since COVID-19 struck. The Global Times quoted Wu Qian as saying that “the two sides will set up joint headquarters, as the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Western Theater Command and Russia’s Eastern Military District will dispatch more than 10,000 personnel, multiple types of aircraft, artillery pieces and armoured equipment in exercises to test joint reconnaissance, early warning, electronic information attack and strike capabilities". A Chinese military expert who asked to remain anonymous told the Global Times (July 29) that judging from the participating troops, related equipment and exercise subjects, the Zapad/Interaction-2021 is a large-scale strategic drill featuring some of the world's most advanced weapons and equipment as well as tactics.





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