Sibu/Cooperation-2021

Russia and China have launched the biggest joint military exercise - Sibu/Cooperation-2021 - in China’s north-central Ningxia region on 9th August involving 10,000 ground troops and Air Forces of the two countries.
Ningxia region is strategically located along the Xinjiang border where Chinese officials have been accused of carrying out human rights violations against ethnic Uighurs in internment camps.
Russia also carried out joint drills with Tajikistan with Uzbekistan forces on 10^th August along the Afghan border amid the Taliban advance in the country with Russia reinforcing its military base in Tajikistan.