'Peace mission' against the U.S.?(COMMENTARY)

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Byline: Ariel Cohen, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES The unprecedented Sino-Russian first joint military exercises on Aug. 18-25 have raised concerns in Washington. "The correlation of forces in Eurasia is shifting against the U.S.", says a senior State Department official. Moscow and Beijing view U.S.

predominance in the post-Cold War world as a threat to their power. A steadily improving Sino-Russian close partnership may lead to severely limiting, if not denying, U.S. strategic presence in the Eurasian land mass from the Pacific Ocean to the Baltic Sea. "Peace Mission 2005", as the maneuvers are called, is taking place on the Shandong Peninsula, on the Yellow Sea, and involve nearly 10,000 troops, including Russian long-range bombers, the army, navy,...