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WarGamer
(17,486 posts)China is sending a clear pro-Russian signal and quiet threat to NATO.
https://apnews.com/article/belarus-china-military-drill-poland-8558b0e413351caa89cfbb3c4441f016
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) Belarus is hosting Chinese troops for a joint military drill near its border with NATO member Poland, officials said Tuesday, the first such exercise reflecting growing defense ties between the two countries.
The 11-day drill named Eagle Assault 2024 started on Monday at a shooting range in the Brest region close to Poland. It comes ahead of NATOs summit in Washington that opens on Tuesday and after Belarus last week joined a regional security organization led by China and Russia.
Belarus authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country of 9.5 million with an iron hand for three decades, has relied on close ties with his main sponsor and ally Russia, and also sought to forge increasingly close relations with China.
jmbar2
(7,038 posts)The Chinese are very ambitious. Russia should not turn their backs on them.
orangecrush
(25,571 posts)
With its external environment becoming increasingly grim and complex, China has chosen to convey its response through force projection. Its ongoing military exercises with Belarus and Russia must be viewed in this context.
On the eve of the NATO Summit, military forces from China and Belarus gathered at a base near Brest city, five kilometers from the latters border with Poland, to commence the Eagle Assault 2024 joint counterterrorism and hostage rescue training exercise. This is the second edition of the exercise, with the first one having been conducted in August 2018 in Chinas Jinan city.
In terms of the number of troops participating, the 2024 exercise has put up a larger display of force, with both the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) Northern Theater Command 80th Group Army and the Belarusian Special Operations Forces contributing about 100 troops each. In 2018, the total number of troops deployed by both sides together was 100.
https://thediplomat.com/2024/07/chinas-show-of-force-with-belarus-amid-nato-concerns/
orangecrush
(25,571 posts)China doesn't have the apparatus to support any long deployment in Europe.
Why would you discourage anyone from watching the video and finding out the facts, I wonder wonder who
Lancero
(3,220 posts)orangecrush
(25,571 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(104,085 posts)And your "excellent channel" remains unnamed (its logo is an ampersand - could be anything, and looks designed to stop people looking it up).
The title alone isn't so bad - there's not that much you can fit in a title. But you're allowed to write as much as you like in your OP ("eg "The devil is in the details - China doesn't have the apparatus to support any long deployment in Europe" ), or explain that it's an exercise in Belarus. But you didn't bother. Watching a video takes time, and there are a lot of people who produce crap videos.
58Sunliner
(5,874 posts)An alliance of utter corruption and violence.
orangecrush
(25,571 posts)China has no intention of fighting in Europe.
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)Mountainguy
(2,145 posts)On their home field they could be tough because they can keep resupplying the meat grinder.....but in Europe against NATO forces that have basically been fighting some kind of war for the past 25 years? They're fucked.
orangecrush
(25,571 posts)Won't support it at this time.
Lots of info in the video to back that up.
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)Chinese combat soldier in Ukraine tells his experiences.
He calls his buddy 'Little Blackie', but not an insult.
They cannot communicate effectively.
The average foot soldier is not hopeful.
The Russians have long fought wars of attrition by
throwing more and more men at it.