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Chinese warships started exercises in the Baltic Sea for the first time on July 25, conducting a joint drill with Russia in a further sign of how the two countries are expanding their global reach through ever-closer military co-operation.

China and Russia have stressed that Joint Sea 2017 is just the latest in a series of regular joint manoeuvres. But the Baltic states and Poland are unsettled by Russia, which they accuse of regular military provocation close to their borders, conducting exercises on their doorstep alongside a quasi-ally.

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