18 August 2003 China and post-Soviet republics hold first-ever military exercises amid fear of Uighur separatism.ALMATY, Kazakhstan–For the first time in its history, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has held joint military exercises. Observers believe that this activation of the region’s leading but loose security organization and the location of last week’s exercises–on both sides of the border of China’s […]
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