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The United States will keep an eye on Chinese-Russian wargames starting Thursday and hopes they will not de-stabilize the region, the State Department said Monday. Spokesman Sean McCormack said both Beijing and Moscow had advised Washington about the unusual joint exercises that will last a week and involve some 10,000 troops from the two countries. "We are following the exercises," McCormack said. "We expect that they will be conducted in a manner that supports some mutual goal of regional stability shared by the United States, China and Russia." The spokesman said the United States would not have any observers at the wargames. "But we would hope that anything that they do is not something that would be disruptive to the current atmosphere in the region." Ships from the Russian Pacific Fleet arrived in the eastern Chinese port of Qingdao on Friday for wargames which Beijing said were aimed at strengthening the allies' ability to fight terrorism and separatism. All rights reserved. © 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse. Related Links SpaceWar Search SpaceWar Subscribe To SpaceWar Express 
US-Indian Military Accord Does Not Compromise Security: Defence Minister
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 02, 2005India's defence minister Tuesday defended a military pact with Washington signed in June that paves the way for joint weapons production and cooperation on missile defence, saying it did not compromise national security. |
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