The Chinese Army held a joint exercise with five countries in Southeast Asia in mid -t

(Zhanjiang Comprehensive News) The Chinese army will hold multiple joint exercises with Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam with Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.

The official website of the Ministry of Defense on the Ministry of Defense released the news on Sunday (November 12) that China will hold a "Peace Friendship-20123" joint exercise with the above five countries in Zhanjiang, Guangdong. This is the first time that this series of exercises have been held in China.

The Chinese Ministry of National Defense said that this exercise is based on "joint counter -terrorism and maintenance of maritime security military operations" as the topic. It is divided into land and sea directions.Strengthen the ability to participate in anti -terrorism action in various countries, further deepen military mutual trust and cooperation, and jointly maintain regional peace and stability.China participated in the southern theater of the war zone, and other parties sent some of the land warfare teams and surface ships to participate in the performance.

The "Peace Friendship" exercise began in 2014. At that time, the Chinese and Malaysian troops for the first time carried out a joint desktop.After joining Thailand in 2018, the "Peace Friendship" exercise was developed into a joint stage of China Malaysia and Thailand. Until this year, Cambodia and Vietnam joined, extended to multi -country joint exercises.

Since the beginning of this year, the military exchanges between China and the Asianan nationals have become increasingly closer.In March of this year, China held the "Golden Dragon-20123" joint military exercise with Cambodia. In April, a joint military exercise was held with our navy.The Chinese Navy's Qi Jiguang ship visited Vietnam, Thailand, Brunei and the Philippines from May to June this year.

The United States is also strengthening the existence of military existence in the Asia -Pacific region.The United States and the Philippines launched the largest "side -by -side" joint military exercise for more than 30 years in April this year.In June, the United States law enforcement agencies in Japan and Japan and the Philippines held joint maritime exercises in the waters near Patan, Philippines.