The eight-day joint military exercises, which involved nearly 10,000 troops in east China's Shandong Peninsula, have been interpreted as a series of signals: to Washington, to other nations in the region and even to one another. However, multiplicity of signals bears a risk that some could remain unheard. Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily. The joint first-ever military exercises between China and Russia was the logical continuation of the first signs of cooperation between Russia and China in the struggle against'orange revolutions, (Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan)' separatism and the dominant influence of the U.S. in the Euro-Asiatic sphere.
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