China, Russia plan naval exercises in Yellow Sea

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BEIJING (AP) -- State media say China and Russia will conduct a joint maritime drill next week in the Yellow Sea off China's eastern coast.

The official Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday that the April 22-27 drill will focus on maritime defense and protection of navigation. It said it will involve 16 vessels, including destroyers, frigates, support and hospital ships and two submarines.

Xinhua said four warships from Russia's Pacific Fleet have left Vladivostok for the exercise

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1. This is in response to all the new bases the US is putting up

in the mideast and elsewhere. This is a huge thing, when China and Russia....who haven't ever loved each other, are joining forces over US imperialism. The fact that we have so much propaganda against each other (gays, hoodies, poor people, women's uteruses) that the corporate media doesn't have time to focus on yet another US policy that is causing problems in the world. Our MIC is running this country to the place that we're just plain not safe.