Old enemies' wargames send a powerful message to the US

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Russia and China hope to sign a massive arms deal after staging joint exercises for the first time

RUSSIA will show off its most modern bombers to its best military customer and China will have a chance to demonstrate that it is a force to be reckoned with when the giant neighbours hold their first joint military exercises this month.
The decision to hold the drills off the east China coast in the Yellow Sea came after a disagreement over Beijing’s initial desire for the games to take place further south, opposite the island of Taiwan — which it hopes one day to recover, by force if necessary.

Yesterday’s announcement that 100,000 troops would mass from August 18 to 25 marked the culmination of years of rapprochement between countries that were once bitter enemies, which went to war in a minor territorial dispute in the 1970s, but now see themselves as strategic partners.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1718819,00.html

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1. Sometimes you just don't know who to pick do you?

Nothing but bad guys and bullies everywhere you look.

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2. Makes me wonder why there's so much evil in the world! But evil is

compounded as it groups. I mean, just about every single person I've met around the world is a nice, good, considerate person. But when this person is placed into a mechanism he/she becomes an evil monster. Mechanism being a large corporation, law enforement, political office, military.