Chinese military team inspects Russian bases as Putin hails ‘natural allies’


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A PLA inspection team visited several facilities in Russia’s Eastern Military District this week, including an air defence missile unit in the far-eastern Jewish Autonomous Region, Russian media reported. The June 2-3 inspection trip by the People’s Liberation Army was a routine verification exercise under a pair of agreements signed by China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Russian news agency Tass reported, citing the district command’s press office. The 1996 Agreement on Confidence Building in the Military Field in Border Areas and the 1997 Agreement on Mutual Reduction of Military Forces in Border Areas formed part of the diplomatic…

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