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| | SqlSpace - Russia-China Exercises Worry U.S., Look Like Taiwan Invasion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | It was only after Perestroika [Restructuring], the breakup of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in 1996, that military cooperation between China and Russia was restored, and the current military exercises are testimony to that. |
 | | [Editor’s Note: On the Chinese-Russian border, Damansky Island, known to the Chinese as Zhen Bao, is an uninhabited stretch of land, about 1 1/2 miles long by a half-mile wide on the border between northeast China and Russia's Siberian Far East. |
 | | Since 1949 Taiwan has been an independent state, but China doesn’t recognize it, viewing the island as an indelible part of itself. |
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