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Beijing Reveals Additional Signing Covering Air, Naval Encounters

September 25 2015

China

China and the United States have formalized annexes to two previous agreements covering major military operations and naval and air encounters, reports Xinhua, China's state news agency.

The annexes about "notification of military crisis" and "encounters in the air" to two "mutual trust mechanisms" were signed on Sept. 18, a Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

The two countries agreed on the mechanisms in November 2014.

The ministry maintains that the...

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