China has criticised a Japan-US military exercise and said its efforts to resolve tensions on the Korean peninsula were being condemned unfairly.
A Chinese leader also told a visiting North Korean delegation that ties between the two countries would survive current “tempests” and be “replenished”.
The weeklong exercise that starts today was planned long before the latest tensions but its scale – 40,000 personnel involved in the simulated defence of an island – reflects concern about China’s rapid emergence as a military power.
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