Russia and China conducted a military Exercise at East Asia as Biden Visited Biden in East Asia The New York Times

WASHINGTON -WASHINGTON – China as well as Russia on Tuesday conducted their first military exercise following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and sent bombers across the oceans of the northeast of Asia in a show of strength as Vice the US president Biden was in the region as per American, South Korean and Japanese officials.

It was reported that the U.S. government was tracking the military exercise when Mr. Biden met in Tokyo with leaders from Australia, Japan and India as part of the known as the Quad coalition , which was created in part in order to fight Chinese influence to China’s Indo-Pacific region. The military action was a clear indication that the alliance with China and Russia is not weakening even in the midst of the three-month-long war in Ukraine has led to hundreds dead civilians.

The planes flew over Sea of Japan early Tuesday and then continued to the south towards southwards towards East China Sea and the Philippine Sea, a senior American official told an interview shortly after the beginning of the exercise. He spoke under the conditions of anonymity. South Korea issued a statement moments later, confirming the exercise in which two Chinese military aircrafts as well as four Russian warplanes were in the air defense identification zone near the country’s east coast, but without entering the airspace. Joint exercises that involve strategic bombers are complex and usually scheduled ahead of time.

The American official further stated that U.S. agencies had evidence that Chinese naval vessels likely participated during the exercise.

It said that the South Korean military dispatched fighter jets ahead of when Chinese or Russian bombers set foot in the area and “and employed strategic measures to protect against situations of emergency,” it said in an announcement. The Japanese military claimed that it sent fighter planes to warn bombers and to monitor them when Chinese as well as Russian warplanes were flying in the airspace of Japan. They didn’t intrude on Japan’s territory, according to the statement.

“We consider the exercise of military force that took place during the summit summit between Japan as well as India, the United States, Australia and India as an attempt to demonstrate the force of Japan who hosted the event,” Nobuo Kishi, Japan’s defense minister, said to reporters. “Also it is noteworthy that the exercise was conducted within the context of the Quad summit is considered to be more provocative than any other drills that have been conducted in previous years.”

“When all of the world reacts to the Russian attack on Ukraine, China is acting in concert alongside the aggressor Russia,” he added. “We can’t help but be worried about this and can’t ignore it.”

The Chinese defense ministry confirmed the operation via a official social media account shortly when South Korea and Japan released their own statements.

Japan, South Korea and Australia have joined Australia, Japan and South Korea have backed the United States and the European Union in opposition to Russia’s aggression and are working with the other nations in imposing measures against Russia. South Korea has announced it will reduce the amount of Russian oil. India is one of the countries that has a long-running strategic partnership with Russia and depends on Moscow for military equipment has taken a non-protest position and has increased the amount in Russian oil.

In the morning of Tuesday, at the beginning of meetings with the Quad leaders of the nations Premier Kishida Fumio of Japan stressed the need to prevent possible conflicts in Asia in his remarks about the conflict in Ukraine while seated alongside others leaders.

“A serious incident that has fundamentally shaken the rule of law international order that we cherish was observed since our last meeting in September last year,” he said. “Russian invasion of Ukraine is a direct challenge to the principles that are protected by the United Nations Charter. We must never let a similar event occur on the Indo-Pacific.”

Beijing has stood with Moscow in providing it with both rhetorical and diplomatic support throughout the conflict. It has repeatedly decried it as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and reiterated the claims of the president Vladimir V. Putin that the expansion of the alliance poses dangerous to the stability of the world and has prompted him to attack Ukraine. It has also reaffirmed Russian disinformation on official platforms, such as a conspiracy theory regarding the Pentagon providing funding for biological weapons labs in Ukraine.

It is true that Mr. Putin has tried to increase the ties between Russia and China as a nation that shares a similar outlook opposing Western dominance. On February. 4, when Mr. Putin visited Beijing for the Winter Olympics and met with the Chinese president Xi Jinping for the 38th time as the nation’s top leaders and their respective governments issued an 5,000-word declaration that stated both nations have the same “no limit” relationship.

High-ranking U.S. officials and a European official later revealed in interviews that an Western intelligence report indicated that top Chinese officials contacted their Russian counterparts early in February to delay the invasion of Ukraine till after the Olympics finished. Following the end of the closing ceremony,. Putin declared that Ukraine was not an independent state and directed additional divisions belonging to his Russian military to move into the besieged Donbas region in the eastern region of Ukraine. The invasion was fully-fledged three days after.

In March midway, U.S. officials said Russia requested China for economic and military aid following the invading of Ukraine. Russian ground troops have performed poorly in combat and skirmishes in the face of the Ukrainian military and the Ukrainian president. Putin has decided to remove units from Kyiv as well as other major cities and focus on capturing the entirety of the Donbas region. American officials claim that they have not found any economic or military aid coming from China to Russia to help fight the conflict.

China hasn’t offered assistance to help Russia to avoid sanctions or lessen the consequences of sanctions, U.S. officials say.

Chinese as well as Russian government officials are enhancing their military relations in recent years. The two countries have become closer due to the close relationship among Mr. Xi and Mr. Putin. Both are autocrats who are hostile to America. United States and aim to reduce American power.

China has been purchasing newer and more sophisticated weapons from Russia The two countries have conducted an increasing number of joint military exercises over the last few months. In October both countries conducted joint naval exercises off the Russian Far East. In January, they teamed up with Iran to conduct the same kind of drills in the northern region of the Indian Ocean.

The United States has been monitoring the rapid progress of modernization of People’s Liberation Army of China and its numerous forces. The Russian aggression in Ukraine has triggered greater fear in certain U.S. and European officials about the possibility that Beijing might be tempted to take over Taiwan. U.S. officials have been trying to convince Taiwan to buy American-made arms which they believe will provide Taiwan an opportunity to defend itself against the typical seaborne assault.

On Monday, Vice President. Biden said the United States will defend Taiwan militarily in the event that China attacks the democratically-governed self-governing island. U.S. officials said later that the remarks of Mr. Biden was not changing the long-standing policy of “strategic uncertainty” regarding Taiwan in the same way as China or China in any manner. This policy that has been unwritten for decades stipulates that there is no way for the United States will remain silent about whether it will deploy military forces to protect Taiwan against China even though it is the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 obliges to the U.S. government to provide military weapons of a defensive nature to Taiwan.

It is reported that the South Korean military said it first saw two Chinese H-6 bombers entering the air defense zone of identification off the coast of the southwest in the Korean Peninsula at 7:56 a.m. Tuesday.

They were then joined by they joined Russian aircraft comprising two fighter jets as well as two Tu-95 bombers off the coast to the east on the island, the report said. The six planes made their way into the South Korean zone there between 9:58 a.m. between 10:15 and 9:58 a.m. but they didn’t infiltrate South Korea’s airspace territorial the officials claimed.

This joint Chinese as well as Russian exercise continued until Tuesday afternoon, when South Korean military spotted a group of four Chinese military aircrafts and two Russian warplanes that were patrolling between South Korea’s southern island Jeju as well as Japan’s south Kyushu island prior to splitting in two.

In his remarks to the opening of the Tuesday meeting during the meeting, Biden opened the meeting with a speech. Biden spoke of how he had previously told his friend. Xi that the United States is committed to maintaining its dominant position across Asia as well as the oceans surrounding it.

“I have been asked once by the president of China why I would keep discussing becoming an Indo-Pacific power,” he said. “And I replied”Because we’re. The Pacific is ours. Pacific — a whole portion of our nation. We’ve been very involved with all of you for quite a while.”

Choe Sang-Hun reported from Seoul Choe Sang-Hun contributed reporting from Seoul, and Motoko Rich reported from Tokyo.