Sino, Pak defence cooperation maintains regional, international peace and security: Chinese Defence Ministry

BEIJING: China and Pakistan share an all-weather partnership and the defence and military cooperation between the two countries would help maintain regional and international peace and security, Ren Guoqiang, spokesperson of the Chinese ministry of national defence said on Thursday.

“China and Pakistan share an all-weather partnership. We have maintained a very high level of defence and military exchange and cooperation,” he said while responding to a question asked by APP Correspondent during his monthly briefing held here.

The spokesperson expressed the confidence that China-Pakistan military exchange and cooperation will help facilitate state to state cooperation between the two countries. “At the same time, I am very confident that our military exchange and cooperation will help to facilitate our state to state relationship.”

Ren Guoqiang said this exchange and cooperation will also maintain regional and international peace and stability.

Regarding military exchanges and joint exercises between the two countries in future, he said both the countries have been discussing it.

Last year, China and Pakistan air forces conducted a joint training exercise “Shaheen VI” in September in China followed by a joint naval exercise between the navies of the two countries in December.