May 30, 2021
By Alexander Mercouris
Video
Chinese-Russian Military-Technological Cooperation Strengthens as Yang Jiechi Visits Moscow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYXTyaWBYLs&t=8s&ab_channel=AlexanderMercouris
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PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA
Meeting with Defence Ministry leadership and heads of defence industry enterprises http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/65653
The meeting was attended by Defence Minister , Chief of the General Staff – First Deputy Defence Minister , Deputy Defence Minister Alexei Krivoruchko, Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces Oleg Salyukov, Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces Sergei Surovikin, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Nikolai Yevmenov, Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff – Deputy Chief of the General Staff Igor Kostyukov, First Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff Viktor Poznikhir, Head of the 3 rd Department of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff Andrei Sterlin.
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GLOBALTIMES
US defense budget a huge bubble ready to burst: Global Times editorial https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202105/1224782.shtml
USS Theodore Roosevelt transits the Pacific Ocean on April 7, 2017. Photo: US Navy US President Joe Biden is scheduled to submit the Fiscal Year 2022 budget to Congress on Friday. US media has disclosed in advance that in this $6 trillion budget, $753 billion will be used for defense, an increase of 1.7 percent over the 2021 figure.
Emma Olive 