Chen Bingde (left), chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China, and Nikolai Makarov, chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, watch the Peace Mission 2009  joint anti-terrorist exercise on Thursday in Taonan, Jilin province. Up to 1,300 army and air force personnel from each side will participate in the drill, scheduled to run from July 22-26 in Khabarovsk and the PLA's Taonan tactic training base. [Peng Kuang/chinadaily.com.cn]