Saturday 20 October 2018

Southeast Asian Nations will hold their first joint maritime exercises with which country?

Southeast Asian Nations will hold their first joint maritime exercises with which country?

Options

1) China

2)japan

3)korea

4)none of the above

answer

1) China


Other details

China and Southeast Asian Nations will hold their first joint maritime exercises next week.

The navies of China and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will hold ASEAN-China Maritime Exercise in the South China Sea near the city of Zhanjiang.

This was announced by Singapore Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen at a gathering of ASEAN defence ministers in Singapore.

 It was also attended by US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis and his Chinese counterpart.

Singapore Defence Minister said the drills will help to build trust and confidence.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a regional intergovernmental organization comprising ten Southeast Asian countries, which promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, security, military, educational, and sociocultural integration among its members and other Asian states. 

Headquarters: Jakarta, Indonesia

Founded: 8 August 1967

Appointer: Governor-General of Australia

Members: Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia, Brunei, Laos

Founders: Adam Malik, Narciso Ramos, Thanat Khoman, S. Rajaratnam, Abdul Razak Hussein

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