In July, the two nations held combined maneuvers in the waters and airspace around Zhanjiang, a city in southern China’s Guangdong province.
Those training came the same week that NATO officials warned China had “become a significant innovator” of Russia’s war of Ukraine, prompting Beijing to inform the United States-led military alliance against “provoking fight”.
Russia and China have recently increased their military and economic cooperation, both railing against” American hegemony,” specifically what they see as US dominance of global affairs.
Shortly before Moscow launched its offensive in Ukraine in 2022, they declared a” no limits” relationship.
Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Moscow last month and stated that his country’s economic and trade relations with China were producing “yielding effects.”