Sibu/Cooperation-2021

• 14 Aug 2021

• Russia and China have launched the biggest joint military exercise - Sibu/Cooperation-2021 - in China’s north-central Ningxia region on 9th August involving 10,000 ground troops and Air Forces of the two countries.
• Ningxia region is strategically located along the Xinjiang border where Chinese officials have been accused of carrying out human rights violations against ethnic Uighurs in internment camps.
• Russia also carried out joint drills with Tajikistan with Uzbekistan forces on 10^th August along the Afghan border amid the Taliban advance in the country with Russia reinforcing its military base in Tajikistan.