Source: Asia Times
By Gordon Watts
Like most high-ranking military officers, Air Force General Xu Qiliang is direct and to the point. The vice-chairman of China’s powerful Central Military Commission rarely uses six words when one will do.
Indeed, ‘blunt’ could be his middle name.
Yet Xu left no-one in doubt about the depth and breadth of “Sino-Russian relations” at a high-level meeting with Moscow’s Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu in Beijing earlier this year.
“China will continue to strengthen military-to-military relations with Russia to address new security challenges in the world,” he said without mentioning the United States or its NATO and Asian allies.
“Relations are now at an all-time high, characterized by deepening strategic mutual trust and expanding cooperation,” Xu told the government-owned website China Military Online.
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