Caucasus 2020 military exercise

Illustrative photo (Source: VNA) Phnom Penh (VNA) - Cambodia and China plan to resume their largest annual joint military exercise, dubbed “Golden Dragon”, next year after a suspension over the past two years due to serious floods and the COVID-19 pandemic. Cambodia’s Khmer Times reported that during a four-day visit to China which concluded on August 16, Cambodian Minister of Defence General Tea Banh and General Xu Qiliang, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, co-chaired a meeting on military cooperation between the two counties in Guangdong province. The two sides discussed collaboration across areas, including the resumption of joint military exercises. The “ Golden Dragon ” military exercise, which began in 2016, aims to exchange experience and enhance the capacity of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in humanitarian operations, disaster rescue and counter-terrorism in the UN framework in … [Read more...] about Cambodia, China to resume ‘Golden Dragon’ military drill in 2023

Since 2021, the Steering Board on People’s Air Defense of Dien Bien Phu city has well performed its advisory duty for the standing board of the city’s Party Committee, People’s Council and Committee to direct the effective implementation of the work in the locality. In addition, relevant departments, agencies, and units have closely coordinated with one another, issued documents, regulations, and action plans on the work and assigned grassroots-level units to seriously carrying out the work. Moreover, the city’s air defense force has been strengthened and conducted training and exercises in an orderly manner. Concluding the inspection visit, Colonel Trung emphasized that the locality should continue embracing all levels-issued resolutions, decrees, and circulars on the people’s air defense work so as to improve the leadership and management capacity of the party committees and authorities as well as the coordination among departments on the work performance. The officer also … [Read more...] about MR2 inspects people’s air defense work in Dien Bien Phu city

Andi Widjajanto, former cabinet secretary and unofficial adviser to President Joko Widodo, who is popularly known as Jokowi, told Reuters the two leaders would join the summit. "Jokowi told me that Xi and Putin are both planning to attend in Bali," Widjajanto, who heads the National Resilience Institute, told Reuters. On Thursday, Jokowi told Bloomberg News that both leaders had given him their assurances. Indonesian presidential officials did not respond to requests for confirmation of the report. The Chinese foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. A Kremlin spokesperson declined to comment to Bloomberg, but another official familiar with the situation told the news agency Putin plans to attend the meeting in person. The trip would be significant given it would be Xi's first time outside China since January 2020, when he visited Myanmar. China maintains a zero-Covid policy that has all but shut its borders to international travel. … [Read more...] about Xi, Putin to attend G20 summit in Indonesia’s Bali this November