From The Guardian:
It was quite a shock for some Russians in a rural backwater of the Urals recently to see lorry-loads of Chinese troops go by. True, they were not pointing their guns at the babushkas but many people panicked, wondering how Chinese forces had reached parts of central Russia, a feat not achieved by either the Nazis or Napoleon’s army.
Those who watched local television knew this was a joint exercise, the first of such magnitude, between Russian forces and over a thousand men of the People’s Liberation Army – and the most startling evidence so far of the extraordinarily cordial relations between Moscow and Beijing. [Full Text]
