A military exercise sponsored by the United States and Mongolia is about to be held. After receiving the invitation, China decided to send troops to participate. The seemingly ordinary moves are actually very informative.
Col. Jiang Bin, spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense of my country, confirmed that at the invitation of the Ministry of National Defense of Mongolia, the People's Liberation Army of China will send a team to Mongolia to participate in the "Khan Exploration-2025" multinational peacekeeping exercise in mid-June.
The joint military exercise of "Khan Exploration" is the code name for a series of military exercises between Mongolia and the United States, and has the nature of combat and combat support.
The first time this military exercise was held in 2003, and it began to expand into multi-national peacekeeping military exercises in 2006, but China joined it very late and had been sending troops to participate in the exercise in 2015.
Subsequently, in 2019, seven countries including Israel were added. In recent years, this joint military exercise has become one of the important platforms for military cooperation and exchanges among countries in the region.
So this time China agreed to send troops to participate in the exercise, which is actually a very common move.
But in the context of the current situation, there is a lot of information.
First of all, the stage of showing strength is useless if you don’t go.
China's military strength is getting stronger and stronger, but if you don't show off, who can be sure?
And this is a peacekeeping military exercise, and it is very necessary for China to exert its influence as a major power.
Secondly, Sino-US relations are tense, which is a step given by the two countries.
Although this invitation was given by Mongolia, if the United States did not agree, the Mongolian side would not dare to make this decision alone.
Since the United States has chosen to let go, it means that they want to have some contact with China, including in various fields such as economy and military.
We are happy to see this because we have always opened our doors and welcome negotiations and cooperation.
Especially, these two days are the critical moments of the second round of Sino-US negotiations. We accepted the invitation to send troops to participate, which shows that China-US contact is not excluded. As long as the United States corrects its attitude and allows us to truly see the sincerity of the dialogue, everything is possible.
Finally, Mongolia took the initiative to take this step and broke the deadlock in China-Mongolia cooperation.
Due to geographical location, Mongolia has always been very stable and is getting along well with China and Russia.
But over the past period of time, there has been some gap between Mongolia and China and Russia due to the "Siberian Power 2" natural gas pipeline project.
After China and Russia approached Kazakhstan and determined a new natural gas route, Mongolia regretted it and wanted to sit down and talk to China and Russia.
But now that China and Russia reacted in this matter in moderation, Mongolia was a little anxious.
This military exercise invitation is one of their ways to show sincerity, and it is also a stepping stone they threw out to test China's attitude.
China's reaction also shows that there is no difficulty in cooperation, and what is important is attitude.
Whether it is Mongolia or the United States, it must be clear that it is more important to deal with China with heart.
