Morning Clicks | PLA peace offensive moves east after India success

The Chinese military's peace offensive this week throughout parts of Southeast Asia has brought calls for stability both to the country's west and south as well as an agreement on military cooperation with India and stronger ties forged with a number of countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

Now Hu Jintao is in Vladivostok for the Apec summit to charm the region with good economic news. Japanese lawmakers will visit Beijing later this month in a further bid to reduce tensions. Meanwhile, CCTV reported yesterday that PLA soldiers have been using an uninhabited island in the Yellow Sea to conduct drills involving a simulated island capture and control mission. Also, a PLA naval destroyer held a live-fire drill yesterday in the East China Sea.

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