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AN ASSEMBLY OF GREAT NATIONS...
Russia and China hold joint
military exercise in August 2007
Chinese armored vehicles rumbling across a field at Chebarkul testing range on Friday as Russian and Chinese forces
held their first joint maneuvers on Russia's territory. (Ivan Sekretarev/The Associated Press) August 17, 2007
A.P. CHEBARKUL The resumption of bomb- Both Moscow and Bei-
ing patrols, which ana- jing share a heighten-
TESTING RANGE, lysts say signaled a signif- ing distrust of what
icant change for Russian they see as the United
Russia: President Vladi- military policy, comes States' oversized role
amid a growing chill in and influence in glob-
mir Putin said Friday he U.S.-Russian relations, al politics, and the two
strained over Washing- former Cold War ri-
had ordered strategic ton's criticism of Russia's vals have forged a
democracy record, Mos- "strategic partner-
bombers to resume regular cow's objections to U.S. ship" aimed at
missile defense plans and counterbalancing
long-range patrols as Rus- differences over global Washington's poli-
crises. cies.
sian and Chinese forces
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held their first joint mili-
tary exercise on Russian
soil — a show of armed
muscle aimed at sending a
pointed message to the
United States.
