Question: Choose the correct pair of countries which recently performed the joint military exercise named “Hand in Hand”.
(a) India- USA
(b) China- USA
(c) India – China
(d) India –Sri Lanka
Ans (c)
Related Facts:
- India-China Joint Military Training Exercise Hand in Hand 2015 will be conducted at Kunming Military Academy of Yunnan province in China from 12 to 22 October 2015.
- It will be the fifth joint military exercise in the Hand-in-Hand series between armies of both countries which had started in 2007.
- Its first Edition in year 2007 was held at Yunnan Province in China.
- Its fourth edition was held in 2014 at Aundh Military Station in Pune, Maharashtra.
- The joint Hand-in-Hand counterterrorism exercises between India and China started on Monday, following the arrival in Kunming of 175 personnel from the Naga Regiment of the Eastern Command. An equal number of Chinese personnel from the Chengdu based 14 corps are participating in the maneuvers.
- This year’s annual exercise kicked off with addresses at Kunming’s Dabanqiao Training Base by Lieutenant General Surinder Singh, Head of Observers Delegation, and Ashok K. Kantha, India’s ambassador to China, and Lieutenant General Zhou Xiaozhou from China.
- It broadens and strengthens interoperability and cooperation between armies of both countries as well as complement a number of other exchanges between the two forces.
- It will also cover aspect of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief at formation headquarters level.
- This edition of exercise will lay emphasis on joint handling of insurgency at sub-unit level and related issues.
- The curriculum of exercise has been planned progressively in order to make participants to get familiar with each other’s organizational structure, weapons, equipment and tactical drills.
Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=128642
http://www.indianembassy.org.cn/newsDetails.aspx?NewsId=705
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