Defense officials have noted increased China-Russia cooperation in the Arctic, while cautioning that their collaboration is still “somewhat superficial.”
A photo released Thursday by the Russian Defense Ministry shows a Chinese air force H-6K bomber accompanied by a Russian Sukhoi Su-30CM jet fighter near Alaska.
NORAD “detected, tracked, and intercepted” the foreign military aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone, a zone that begins where sovereign airspace ends and which requires the “ready identification of all aircraft in the interest of national security,” NORAD China’s Defense Ministry spokesman Zhang Xiaogang said in a press briefing Thursday that the flight was the eighth “joint air strategic patrol” carried out by the Chinese and Russian militaries since 2019. He added that the operation “is not directed at any third party, complies with international law and practices, and is unrelated to the current international and regional situation.
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