According to Shangguan News, on the 19th local time, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet flagship Varange guided missile cruiser led a fleet to the East China Sea to hold joint military exercises with the Chinese Navy that day.

Author: Sima Nan Channel Zhiyuan

According to Shangguan News, on the 19th local time, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet flagship Varange guided missile cruiser led a fleet that day to the East China Sea waters to hold joint military exercises with the Chinese Navy. The Ministry of National Defense of China and Russia also mentioned in the press release that this move is aimed at strengthening the cooperative relationship between the two navies and maintaining peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region.

In the past few days, the Staff and Supervision Department of the Japanese Ministry of Defense has been very busy, because a Chinese aircraft carrier formation with the aircraft carrier Liaoning as the core and multiple Type 055 guided missile destroyers is conducting take-off and landing training for carrier-based fighter jets and helicopters in the waters surrounding Japan. At the same time, on the 19th local time, the Japanese Ministry of Defense announced that two H-6K strategic bombers of the Chinese Air Force also appeared in the waters surrounding Japan that day.

In view of the fact that the Navy's Liaoning aircraft carrier formation is currently operating in the waters surrounding Japan, this Sino-Russian maritime joint military exercise should be a large-scale joint military exercise involving the Chinese Navy's aircraft carrier . Not long ago, the bomber that China and Russia participated in a joint strategic air cruise mission took off and landed at each other's airport at the same time. This is enough to show that the strategic cooperative relationship between the Chinese and Russian militaries has been elevated to a higher level of "no distinction between you and me."

After the conflict between Russia and Ukraine broke out, the argument that "Russia has been isolated by the international community" has been widely circulated in Western public opinion circles. In the mouths of Western media and politicians, Russia has become an alien "excluded" from the world. But facts have proven that it is just a means of Western public opinion's "cognitive war" against Russia. After all, the unipolar era in which the West covers the sky with one hand has ended, and most countries in the world are unwilling to choose sides on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Therefore, during the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the West's comprehensive sanctions against Russia not only failed to bring down the Russian economy, but caused backlash on its own economy.

As far as the current international situation is concerned, the West's attempt to isolate Russia has obviously failed. Just as Russia and China are about to hold joint military exercises in the East China Sea, another joint military exercise between Russia and Belarus will also begin. The Russian Satellite News Agency claimed that Russian President Putin 19 said that Russia and Belarus had reached an agreement to continue joint military exercises. It is reported that the joint military exercise plan being formulated includes carrying out combat coordination activities of formations and troops among Russian troops in Belarus, as well as establishing a unified air defense system between the Russian and Belarusian armies and putting it on combat readiness duty.

In the field of military cooperation, Russia not only has good relations with China and Belarus. When Russia held the "Vostok-2022" strategic exercise, more than a dozen countries, including India, sent troops to participate in the exercise. In terms of economic, trade and energy cooperation, it has established good cooperative relations with Asian countries such as India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as many countries in Latin America and Africa. This is an unforgivable failure for the West, which is trying to push Russia to the opposite side of the international community through sanctions and diplomatic isolation.

Russia’s military cooperation with countries such as China and Belarus is not limited to holding joint military exercises. Russia currently has tens of thousands of military combatants deployed in Belarus, equipped with important equipment including fighter jets, anti-aircraft missiles and tanks and armored vehicles, effectively constraining Ukraine's combat operations. Ukraine is even worried all the time that Russia may attack it from Belarus. As for China, although it has not been involved in the vortex of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, it is reasonable to provide necessary help to Russia.

At a time when the West is launching a frantic containment of Russia in the economic and trade field, China has opened its market door and imported a large amount of Russian commodities, including energy and food, which is the best support for Russia to resist Western sanctions. In addition, Russian media reported that the SCO Defense Ministers’ Meeting was recently held in Moscow.During this period, Russian President Vladimir Putin believed that it is necessary to continue to share experience in building national armed forces, expand defense cooperation among countries, and introduce the most advanced weapons and equipment within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Regarding Putin’s relevant statements, some foreign media analyzed that Russia may be interested in seeking military trade cooperation with China. Because within the framework of the SCO or the CIS, only China has the strength to share its military construction experience with Russia or provide Russia with advanced weapons and equipment. In this regard, some analysts believe that the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine has given Russia a deep understanding of the shortcomings of its own military construction. After the war, if Russia wanted to comprehensively improve its military equipment and technology, it could only seek help from China.

Previously, Ukrainian media claimed that more than ten Russian military large transport aircraft frequently flew between China and Russia, and suspected that China provided weapons or ammunition to Russia. However, this was just a one-sided statement made by Ukrainians and was without any basis, so it did not cause much turmoil in public opinion. However, as the Sino-Russian military cooperation relationship gradually improves, and against the background of many shortcomings in the Russian military equipment system, Russia's future purchase of military equipment from China should become an inevitable choice.