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Chinese tanks and servicemen are seen their way to the Vostok-2018 military exercises at Zabaikalsk. Photo: AFP/ Evgeny Yepanchintsev / Sputnik

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Japan, ASEAN keep cool as huge Russian war-games unfold

by Peter J. Brown September 12, 2018February 18, 2020

As the mighty Vostok 2018 exercise unrolls across the vast spaces of Eastern Russia and the seas beyond, elsewhere in the region, the reaction is muted. The upgrade in the Beijing-Moscow military partnership has ramifications for Japan, but fewer for Southeast Asia, where China and Russia have fewer alignments. Prof William Brooks at the Johns […]