{"id":47505,"date":"2019-07-29T06:32:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T11:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47505"},"modified":"2019-07-29T06:32:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T11:32:57","slug":"russia-and-china-display-strategic-coordination-in-asia-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47505","title":{"rendered":"Russia and China display strategic coordination in Asia-Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/indianpunchline.com\/russia-and-china-display-strategic-coordination-in-asia-pacific\/\">Russia and China display strategic coordination in Asia-Pacific<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianpunchline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/spy-planes-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1787\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Russian Tu-95 MS (above) &amp; Chinese Xian H-6 strategic bombers. File photo&nbsp;<\/em><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An exciting new template has appeared in the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific last week when Russia\u2019s Aerospace Force and China\u2019s Air Force carried out their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/defense\/1069966\">first-ever joint air patrol<\/a>&nbsp;in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steadily and imperceptibly but profoundly, the regional alignments are transforming. Russia and China routinely claim that their entente is neither a military alliance nor is directed against any third country. Yet, the alchemy of that relationship is undergoing a huge transformation, stemming out of a conscious decision by their top leaderships.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The so-called joint patrol last Tuesday involved Russia\u2019s Tu-95MS strategic bombers and the H-6K aircraft on China\u2019s part. The Tupolov Tu-95MS (which NATO calls the \u2018Bear\u2019) is a is a large, four-engine turboprop-powered strategic bomber and missile platform to carry the new Russian Kh-101\/102 stealth cruise missile, which uses use radio-radar equipment and target-acquiring\/navigation system based on GLONASS. The \u2018Bear\u2019 used to be a veritable icon of the Cold War as it performed a maritime surveillance and targeting mission for other aircraft, surface ships and submarines and a versatile bomber that would deliver the thermonuclear bomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China\u2019s H-6K is a heavily redesigned version of the \u2018Bear\u2019, capable of carrying air launched cruise missiles. According to the Pentagon, the bomber gives China a \u201clong-range standoff offensive air capability\u201d with precision-guided munitions. Russia and China deployed two each of the Tu-95MS and H-6K strategic bombers in the air patrol on Tuesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a Russian Defence Ministry statement, the air patrol was undertaken on the&nbsp;\u201cplanned route over the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea.\u201d The statement added that the joint air patrol&nbsp;was intended to strengthen Russian-Chinese relations and raise the level of interaction between the armed forces of both countries, in particular, to expand their capabilities for joint operations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Significantly, the Russian statement\u00a0\u00a0said that another goal of the joint patrol is \u201cstrengthening global strategic stability.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia and China display strategic coordination in Asia-Pacific Russian Tu-95 MS (above) &amp; Chinese Xian H-6 strategic bombers. File photo&nbsp; An exciting new template has appeared in the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific last week when Russia\u2019s Aerospace Force and China\u2019s Air Force carried out their&nbsp;first-ever joint air patrol&nbsp;in the region. Steadily and imperceptibly but profoundly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3407,26386,694],"class_list":["post-47505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-asia-pacific","tag-military-alliance","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47506,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47505\/revisions\/47506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}