Singapore and China conduct 10-day bilateral army exercise

A photo from the 2019 edition of Exercise Cooperation. Mindef said the theme of the exercise is urban counter-terrorism operations. - MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, SINGAPORE (MINDEF)/FACEBOOK

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Singapore Armed Forces and China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are conducting a two-week bilateral army exercise from Sept 1, the first such exercise since 2019 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Exercise Cooperation, which is running for the fifth time since the first edition in 2009, involves soldiers from the Singapore Army’s 3rd Singapore Division and 1st Commando Battalion, as well as the PLA Southern Theater Command Army’s (STCA) 74th Army Group.