Captured between 2026-10-20T16:12:37.010Z and 2026-10-20T16:12:37.028Z. This is a captured core record, not a reconstruction of an arbitrary earlier moment.
Status: published
The United States and Japan have commenced the joint military exercise Keen Sword across multiple regions including Okinawa, Kyushu, and Hokkaido, featuring Japan's recently deployed Type 25 surface-to-ship missiles. Concurrently, Chinese forces have launched live-fire and amphibious training drills across the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea, including an exercise scheduled to run for 47 days in the southern Yellow Sea. Specific operational interactions between the two military drills have not been reported.
Category: force-massing · Location: Unresolved
No published correction or update is recorded. This does not reconstruct changes made before correction records were kept.
Global Events Monitor. US-Japan Keen Sword Exercise Begins as Chinese Military Conducts Drills Across Four Seas. 2026-10-20T07:48:55.212Z. Status: published. urn:global-events-monitor:event:6424. https://global.eventmonitor.net/record/6424/revision/76c18fac82b3d7fb0ed482321ff49e7b72ae60d0782c32aa6d3201a38063718d
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