........Ni said the naval drill could also be sending a
message to the US at a time when tensions have resurfaced over a slew of
issues including the South China Sea dispute.
“The US has been quite active in the region
recently,” he said, citing its joint naval exercises with Japan and
India and recent maritime and airspace patrols in disputed waters of the
East China Sea and South China Sea. Two Chinese fighter jets
intercepted a US Navy surveillance plane over the East China Sea at the
weekend.
Zhou Chenming, a military observer, said Russian
ships may join the exercise in the Yellow Sea, in a sign of closer
Sino-Russian military and security ties.
Shi Yinhong, an international relations
specialist from Renmin University, agreed that Beijing and Moscow
appeared to be edging closer as Washington threatened tougher sanctions
against North Korea and Russia. “Russian-US relations were strained over
Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and ties between China and the US have
been frayed in recent weeks. This is the fundamental reason behind the
growing military ties between China and Russia,” he said.
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