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| | Las Vegas SUN: Russian-Chinese Military Exercise Set (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The Aug. 18-25 maneuvers, to be held on China's Shandong peninsula, highlight budding military ties between Moscow and Beijing, whose relations have warmed after decades of Cold War-era rivalry. |
 | | Under the scenario, the Shandong peninsula, which juts into the Yellow Sea about 275 miles southeast of Beijing, poses as an imaginary state "on the territory of which riots stemming from ethnic discord took place and confrontation between different forces occurred," Moltenskoi said. |
 | | Moltenskoi, who insisted that the Shandong peninsula had been chosen from the beginning, said that about 10,000 troops, 1,800 of them Russian, will take place in the exercise. |
| www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/w-eur/2005/aug/02/080203773.html (623 words) |
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