China, ASEAN boosting ties in counterterror drill
The counterterrorism practices generated through exchanges and exercises among elite fighting forces of members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and its dialogue partners will boost the People's Liberation Army's combat capability during multinational counterterrorism missions in response to regional terror threats, military officers said.
A live-ammunition, joint exercise was held Wednesday to drill counterterrorism missions in urban environments at the PLA Ground Force Southern Theater's training ground in Guilin, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
More than 800 officers and soldiers from 18 countries - and the ASEAN Center of Military Medicine - took part in the exercise aimed at improving joint command and operation procedures drafted by the Experts' Working Group on counterterrorism of the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting-Plus.
