China and Russia agreed Monday to further deepen military cooperation after their leaders affirmed last week close coordination in countering the United States and its allies amid the Ukraine crisis and heightened tensions across the Taiwan Strait, Russia's Tass news agency said.
Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, and China's foreign policy chief Yang Jiechi expressed "mutual interest in maintaining a high level of military-technical cooperation" including conducting joint exercises and patrols during a meeting in Nanping, southeastern China, it said.
