PLA Chief calls for long-term strategic perspective in Sino-Australian ties: 3rd round of the China-Indonesia defense and security consultation held: Deputy Chief of Vietnamese Army visits China: New batch of Chinese peacekeepers go to Lebanon;
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    • PLA Chief of Staff Gen. Chen Bingde, in remarks at the Australian Defense College, stated that Chinese and Australian military-to-military cooperation should be guided by long-term strategic perspective and added that both the countries had stakes in ensuring peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region.1 Chen was in Australia to participate in the 12th Australia and China Defense Strategic Dialogue.2 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in his meeting with Chen noted that the two countries had recorded constructive and productive cooperation in various fields such as economy, trade and culture.3

    The 3rd round of China-Indonesia defense and security consultation also took place in Beijing in the previous week. While Xu Caihou, Vice-Chairman of China's Central Military Commission led the Chinese delegation, Secretary General of Indonesia's Defense Ministry Sjafrie Sjamsuddin led the Indonesian delegation. Xu noted that there were no fundamental problems between China and Indonesia and that both countries enjoyed sound bilateral relations.4 China also hosted the deputy chief of general staff of the Vietnamese People’s Army Ngyyen Quoc Khanh on October 13, 2009.5

    170 officers and men of the 6th batch of the Chinese engineering battalion and the 5th batch of the medical detachment left for south Lebanon on October 15.6

    The PLA successfully finished ‘Vanguard 2009’ exercises on October 13 in east China’s Jinan area.7 Reports noted that the PLA Navy conducted a mine-sweeping exercise in a complicated electromagnetic environment in the East China Sea in early October. A new-type of indigenously developed mine-sweeping devices were tested under close-to-real-war conditions.8 The PLA also started a new military exercise in central China's Henan Province involving around 10,000 soldiers and officers from the army and air force and more than 50 kinds of equipment.9

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