China and Russia in military exercises

Channelnewsasia.com: "The week-long exercises with naval ships, bombers and fighter planes began in the Russian city of Vladivostok and will later move to the Yellow Sea and the area off the Jiaodong peninsula in eastern China's Shandong province.

Chinese defence officials said the exercises would focus on the ability of Russian and Chinese forces to fight separatism and terrorism, while strengthening mutual trust between two of the world's major powers."

We have had miltitary exercises over here with military personnel playing war games in different parts of Australia much to the consternation of locals. The military always argues that it has to "practise" and that it keeps them in a state of preparedness. I'd rather do without, but I suppose I take the point that I lock the doors on my home and I suppose the military is a way of locking the doors on your country. With the London and Madrid bombings, the attacks on the Russian school and all the various other examples of people being destructive in a major way, most countries are looking at how they can best defend themelves and have a ready force to provide extra assistance in a time of major emergency. Like the military response to the tsunami affected countries was efficient and really helpful. I hate military stuff. I hate it, but I can see the value of a military approach to things and having military equipment. It's the destructiveness of it. I guess people just want to dissuade the loose cannons around the place who would blow up hotels, schools, railway stations...you name it...It's a sad, sad world, but China and Russia have had their fair share of major incidents as well, and the London bombings seem to be the final straw for the world. We might have thought we could resolve the situation with nutter bombers, but now we are starting to feel insecure and have taken recourse to military defence...sad. Other countries have been invited to watch the wargames. Iran, India, Pakistan have representatives there.