Singapore and China united on terror risk

GUILIN: China and Singapore launched their first bilateral military drill yesterday.

Code-named Cooperation 2009, the counter-terrorism training exercise in Guilin, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, involved the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and focused on anti-nuclear, biological and chemical threats. Each army sent 61 troops to the nine-day training session.

"Countries are holding joint military drills as the world is faced with the threat of terrorism," said Zhang Xuegang, a Southeast Asian studies expert at China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations.