The exercise is not the first time Russian and Chinese forces have trained together, but it is the first time the exercises have been held in Russia and they are by far the largest to date.

Officials say future exercises will grow both in scale and frequency.

Russia's chest-beating and flag planting in the arctic and growing SE Asian tension have me worried. Call me a cold-war nut, but a Russia/China alliance seems like one of the signs of the apocalypse