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Yahoo
10-03-2025
- Business
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China, Iran, and Russia hold joint drills amid increased security cooperation
Iran, China, and Russia began annual 'Security Belt' military exercises in the Gulf of Oman Monday, underscoring the three nations' security cooperation amid a shifting US foreign policy position under President Donald Trump. Since taking office in January, Trump has renewed his first term's posture of 'maximum pressure' on Tehran, imposed hiked import duties on China, and made overtures toward Russian President Vladimir Putin as Trump pushes to end the Ukraine war. Trump's thawing of US-Russia ties is, some analysts have argued, a potential attempt at a so-called 'reverse Nixon,' aimed at pushing Beijing and Moscow apart. Still, it remains 'highly unlikely that Russia has any desire to separate itself from China,' a Brookings Institution analyst said, although Moscow 'likes to have options.' Despite 'all the real limits to their partnership,' the Council on Foreign Relations wrote, Moscow and Beijing remain united by 'opposition to a US-led world that, they believe, affords them too little security, status, and freedom of action.'
Yahoo
09-03-2025
- Politics
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China, Iran and Russia to hold 'Security Belt' military exercise in Indian Ocean
March 9 (UPI) -- Iran, China and Russia will launch a joint military operation Monday called "Security Belt 2025," designed to promote security and trilateral cooperation in the Indian Ocean. "The aim is to strengthen military mutual trust and foster pragmatic cooperation among the naval forces of the participating countries," the Chinese defense ministry said in a statement. It's the 7th "Security Belt" exercise, and will include drills that focus on striking maritime targets, damage control, as well as joint search and rescue, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua. China is scheduled to dispatch the Baotou, its most powerful guided missile destroyer to participate in the exercise. This year's exercise is scheduled to take place in the Iranian port of Chabahar on the Gulf of Oman coast. Officials from the Azerbaijan Republic, South Africa, Oman, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Qatar, Iraq, the UAE, and Sri Lanka will monitor the exercise, Iranian state media reported. Last year's exercises included the armed rescue of hijacked merchant vessels and firing on targets at sea, the Chinese ministry reported.
