Daily Memo: China’s Drills and Failures

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Chinese-Emirati drills. The United Arab Emirates and China will hold their first joint air force exercises, according to the Ministry of Defense in Abu Dhabi. No date was announced, but Beijing previously indicated that the drills will take place in late August. China will host the exercises, dubbed Falcon Shield, in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous […]

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