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15. “PRC: Details of ‘Coalition 2003’ SCO Joint Military Exercise.”
16. “PLA Daily Gives On-The-Spot Coverage of Stage Two of
‘Coalition-2003’ Exercises.”
17. “Details of PRC-Pakistan Joint Antiterrorism Exercise
‘Friendship-2004’,” CPP20040809000097, Beijing, China, Zhongguo
Qingnian Bao (Internet Version-WWW) in Chinese, August 7,
2004, translated by OSC.
18. According to “China’s National Defense in 2008,”
January 2009, available from english.gov.cn/official/2009-01/20/
content_1210227.htm, Army border defense units have “carried
out extensive exchanges and cooperation on border defense with
neighboring countries.”
19. JFJB Article on “Background, Rationale of PRC-Indian
Joint Antiterror Exercise,” CPP20071220710001, Beijing, China,
Jiefangjun Bao (Internet Version-WWW) in Chinese, December 20,
2007, p. 5, translated by OSC; “Twelve Military exercises: A Chronology,”
People’s Daily, August 19, 2005, available from english.
peopledaily.com.cn/200508/19/eng20050819_203469.html, gives the
date of this exercise as August 28, 2004.
20. “China: ‘Peace Mission 2005’ Exercises Reflect Growing
Sino-Russian ‘Mutual Trust’.”
21. Ibid. The term “terrorists on a global scale” parallels
President George W. Bush’s formulation enunciated his address
to Congress on September 20, 2001, “Our war on terror begins
with al-Qaida, but it does not end there. It will not end until every
terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and
defeated.”
22. “Scenario for Russian-Chinese Military Exercise Outlined,”
CEP20050824949010, Moscow, Russia, Krasnaya Zvezda in
Russian, August 24, 2005, translated by OSC.
23. For a more detailed description of “Peace Mission-2005,”
see Dennis J. Blasko, “PLA Ground Force Modernization And
Mission Diversification: Underway In All Military Regions,”
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