At 11:18 a.m. on May 6, officers and soldiers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Army and a brigade of the 79th Group Army participated in the Sino-Mongolian "Grassland Partner-2024" army joint exercise with high morale and full of spirit.
The PLA will use three railway transport echelons to go to the area of Mongolia's East Gobi Province, and is expected to arrive in the joint military exercise area around 9 May, mainly with firepower coverage, joint operations, and logistics support as the main subjects for joint training.
Mongolia pursues the establishment of profound friendly relations with China and Russia as the first priority, advocates balanced exchanges with China and Russia, and carries out extensive exchanges and cooperation.
It is reported on the website of the Ministry of Defense
According to the annual cooperation plan between the Chinese and Mongolian militaries and the consensus of the two sides, the China-Mongolia "Steppe Partner-2024" army joint training will be held in Mongolia's East Gobi Province from the end of April to the end of May. The Chinese side will send battalion-sized troops to Mongolia to participate in the training, bringing various types of weapons and wheeled equipment. This is the first joint training between the two armies, with the theme of countering the activities of illegal armed groups, aiming to further deepen strategic mutual trust and practical cooperation between the Chinese and Mongolian militaries, and inject positive energy into regional peace and stability.
Since the beginning of this year, Mongolia has been in frequent contact with Western European and NATO countries. Since last year, the United States has shown goodwill to Mongolia in many ways, and the United States and Mongolia have signed a 31 million tons mineral development agreement, including key rare earth resources, during which the United States signed an "open sky agreement", which is widely believed to be paving the way for the subsequent transportation of mineral resources.
Mongolia has established ties with the United States, Japan, South Korea and other Western European countries other than China and Russia, and even with NATO countries, mainly to expand international trade, and China and Russia are not opposed.
According to Mongolian sources, the United States insists on establishing a military base in Mongolia in an attempt to break the geopolitical structure of Northeast Asia and then complete the Asia-Pacific strategy and even the Indo-Pacific strategy of the United States.
If the United States establishes a military base in Mongolia, it will pose a powerful threat to China and Russia, and will cut off the ties between China and Russia, and Mongolia will be sandwiched between China and Russia, and it will become a battlefield for the tripartite forces of the United States, China, and Russia.
Although the United States intends to build a military base in Mongolia, Mongolia has resolutely opposed this idea of the United States, and Mongolia does not allow any foreign country to establish a military base in its own country, and Mongolia's contacts with its third neighbor are more economic and trade exchanges.
In fact, Mongolia does not have the need for security protection, close to China and Russia, just like having a natural barrier and firewall, very safe, Mongolia does not need to consider security at all, only need to focus on economic development, China and Russia are next to it, is two huge international trade markets, has great potential and opportunities for their own economic development.
Mongolian People's Army
Mongolian People's Army
It is hoped that the armed forces of the two countries will strengthen exchanges, complement each other's advantages, and create closer strategic mutual trust and cooperation between the Chinese and Mongolian militaries.
China and Mongolia are separated by a strip of water, and there are in-depth cooperation and exchanges in various fields such as science, technology, culture, and education; China and Mongolia are good-neighborly and friendly partnerships, and China is also Mongolia's largest trading partner.