BEIJING—China and Russia’s naval forces on Sunday kicked off a joint exercise at a military port in southern China on Sunday, state-run news agency Xinhua reported, days after NATO allies called Beijing a “decisive enabler” of the war in Ukraine.
The Chinese defense ministry said in a brief statement forces from both sides recently patrolled the western and northern Pacific Ocean and that the operation had nothing to do with international and regional situations and didn’t target any third party.
