Chinese Communist Soldiers Train in Belarus, the Kremlin’s Satellite in Eastern Europe and a Stone’s Throw From NATO

Code-named Eagle Assault 2024, the exercise comes immediately after Belarus joins the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a Russo-Chinese counterweight to the North Atlantic Treaty.

Ministry of defense of Belarus
Communist Chinese soldiers in Belarus. Ministry of defense of Belarus

Three miles east of the border of Poland — a member of the North Atlantic Treaty — Communist Chinese soldiers are training through next Friday with soldiers of Belarus. The People’s Liberation Army soldiers flew in from western China on a lumbering Chinese-built Y-20 transport plane.

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