The Joint Sea-2025 military exercise marks a significant
deepening of strategic military cooperation between Beijing and Moscow as both
powers position themselves against Western influence.
Zig Diaries Defence
Date: Sunday, 4 August 2025
Time: 16:00 WAT
Location: 📍 Vladivostok,
Russia
China and Russia have launched a fresh round of joint naval exercises—Joint
Sea-2025—off the coast of Vladivostok, just days after renewed U.S. military
movements in the Pacific.
China and Russia
have commenced a three-day high-profile naval exercise, Joint Sea-2025, in the
Sea of Japan, showcasing their growing military synergy amid intensifying
global power rivalries.
According to
China’s Ministry of National Defence, the drill—launched on Sunday—involves a
series of complex operations, including submarine rescues, joint anti-submarine
warfare, air defense, and missile engagement simulations.
The exercise
comes just two days after former U.S. President Donald Trump announced the
deployment of two nuclear submarines, in reaction to what he described as
“provocative” rhetoric from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. While not
directly acknowledged by either Beijing or Moscow, the timing of the drills
underscores a strategic counterweight to U.S. and NATO activities in the
region.
Footage
released by the Russian Defence Ministry showed both navies simulating a
submarine rescue operation, with divers and specialized support vessels
recovering a submersible from the ocean floor. State broadcasters aired clips
of coordinated live-fire artillery drills and joint maneuvers repelling mock
aerial attacks.
The Chinese
fleet for the exercise includes the destroyers Shaoxing and Urumqi,
a diesel-electric submarine, the replenishment ship Qiandaohu, and the rescue vessel Xihu. Russia deployed the anti-submarine ship Admiral Tributs, corvette Gromky, rescue vessel Igor Belousov, and the submarine Volkhov.
Military
analysts suggest the Joint Sea-2025 exercise serves both tactical and symbolic
purposes—demonstrating operational coordination while signaling political unity
in the face of mounting Western pressure. Since 2012, the annual drill has
become a pillar of Sino-Russian defence diplomacy, reflecting deeper alignment
especially in the aftermath of Western sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of
Ukraine.
The exercise
further illustrates a recalibration of the global military balance, with
authoritarian powers increasingly coordinating in defence, diplomacy, and
deterrence.
🏷️Tags: China-Russia Relations, Joint Sea-2025, Sea of
Japan, Naval Drills, Military Cooperation
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