China, Pakistan to expand the defence coop, vows Beijing

BEIJING: China has said that Chinese and Pakistani militaries stand ready to expand practical cooperation in various fields to a new level and inject a new impetus into the all-weather strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries.
Spokesperson for China’s Ministry of National Defence said at a press conference in Beijing that the military-to-military relations, serving as the mainstay of the China-Pakistan friendship, have played an important role in the development of bilateral relations for a long time.
The spokesperson emphasised that China and Pakistan are all-weather strategic cooperative partners,true friends and iron brothers that share weal and woe. China is willing to work with Pakistan to accelerate the construction of a closer China-Pakistan community of shared destiny in the new era.
He said that the two militaries have achieved fruitful results in fields such as high-level visits, joint training and exercises, anti-epidemic cooperation and equipment technology, constantly enriching the connotation of bilateral strategic cooperation. – TLTP