Ten naval ships from China and Russia sailed through the Tsugaru Strait earlier this week, according to the Japanese government. The strait separates Japan's main island and Hokkaido. pic.twitter.com/g82DQIxgdF

— South China Morning Post (@SCMPNews) October 20, 2021

Taiwan Straits is no Tsugaru Strait; US warship passage will never be legalized: Global Times editorial

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Putin: Russia must build up defenses in view of NATO moves | ABC News |

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday emphasized the need to strengthen the country's air defenses amid NATO's military activities near Russia's borders.

Speaking during a meeting with military officials and arms makers in the southern Russian city of Sochi, Putin specificially noted the deployment of NATO's U.S.-led missile defense components in Eastern Europe and increasingly frequent missions by NATO ships near Russian waters in the Baltic and Black Seas.

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Russia has bristled at the deployment of U.S. and other NATO ships near waters it claims as its own as tensions between Moscow and the West have sunk to post-Cold War lows after Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, its support for a separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine and other irritants.

Allied Air Forces around the Black Sea set for another week of multinational exercise Castle Forge

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