China, Russia and Mongolia team up for first-ever border defence drill
China’s Defense Ministry announced that China, Russia, and Mongolia have held their first-ever joint border defense drills, dubbed Border Defence Cooperation 2025. 
China, Russia and Mongolia team up for first-ever border defence drill
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China, Russia and Mongolia team up for first-ever border defence drill

Photo: Sergey Bobylev/AFP
Eurasia 09/09/2025 17:10

China’s Defense Ministry announced that China, Russia, and Mongolia have held their first-ever joint border defense drills, dubbed Border Defence Cooperation 2025. 

The two-day exercise, conducted Monday and Tuesday in a shared frontier region, focused on countering border security threats and deepening trust among the three countries.

A joint command post was set up in China, where the host nation assumed leadership with collective input from all sides. The drills followed a trilateral leaders’ summit in Beijing on 2 September, shortly after President Xi Jinping met with over 20 non-Western heads of state. 

While Russia and China are founding members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Mongolia has remained an observer since 2004.

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