{"id":7749,"date":"2015-05-01T06:40:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T11:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7749"},"modified":"2015-05-01T06:40:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T11:40:54","slug":"china-russia-unveil-first-ever-mediterranean-joint-naval-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7749","title":{"rendered":"China, Russia Unveil First-Ever Mediterranean Joint Naval Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-05-01\/china-russia-unveil-first-ever-mediterranean-joint-naval-exercise\" target=\"_blank\">China, Russia Unveil First-Ever Mediterranean Joint Naval Exercise<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Sabre-rattling much? For the\u00a0<strong>first time in history, Chinese and Russian navies will begin a significant joint naval exercise in The Mediterranean Sea in mid-May<\/strong>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/254613-china-russia-mediterranean-navy\/\">As RT reports,<\/a>\u00a0Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng, &#8220;The aim is to deepen both countries&#8217; friendly and practical cooperation, and increase our navies&#8217; ability to jointly deal with maritime security threats,&#8221; but diplomatically added\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;these exercises are not aimed at any third party and have nothing to do with the regional situation.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Against a background of this week&#8217;s &#8220;upgraded Japan-American military relationship&#8221; following Abe&#8217;s visit to Obama, as one analyst notes,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;the geopolitical significance of its exercising alongside Russia will not be lost on the U.S. and NATO.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Chinese and Russian Navies have exercised together since 2012 in waters off Russia\u2019s eastern seaboard; but as RT reports,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Russian and Chinese Navies are to hold a joint exercise\u00a0<strong>in the Mediterranean Sea in mid-May, a first in that part of the world.<\/strong>\u00a0A total of nine warships from the two countries are to participate, Beijing said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The aim is to deepen both countries&#8217; friendly and practical cooperation, and increase our navies&#8217; ability to jointly deal with maritime security threats,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said on Thursday in a monthly news briefing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China, Russia Unveil First-Ever Mediterranean Joint Naval Exercise Sabre-rattling much? For the\u00a0first time in history, Chinese and Russian navies will begin a significant joint naval exercise in The Mediterranean Sea in mid-May.\u00a0As RT reports,\u00a0Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng, &#8220;The aim is to deepen both countries&#8217; friendly and practical cooperation, and increase our navies&#8217; ability [&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":[130,4188,2150,553,1291,694,712],"class_list":["post-7749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-mediterranean","tag-military-exercises","tag-nato","tag-rt","tag-russia","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749","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=7749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7750,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions\/7750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}