Sentences with phrase «chinese military exercises»
The US bomber flight comes amid a series of Chinese military exercises, including live - fire drills, near Taiwan that a government spokesman said were meant to send a message to Taipei that Beijing would take further steps if Taiwanese independence forces continue doing as they please.
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China's air force has started military exercises near the Korean peninsula to deter «surprise attacks» from across the sea, said Chinese state media.
Some Western political analysts interpreted Yang Liwei's adventure as an exercise for future military missions, but Bates Gill, who holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., sees a more complex agenda: «The core motivation for the Chinese government is prestige, to send a signal to the world that it's a rising player.