Border security

China, Vietnam Hold Joint Drills

Vietnam and China held a joint drill along their shared border this week, Chinese media reports said Friday.

The border guard command of Vietnam’s northern Ha Giang province and border police detachment in China’s southwest Yunnan Province’s Wenshan have held a “joint anti-terror exercise,” Xinhua reported.

The drill, named Thien Thanh 2016 (Tianqiang 2016), took place Thursday at Thanh Thuy International Border Gate in Ha Giang province that borders the two nations around 220 kilometers north of the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, Xinhua said quoting the local Quan Doi Nhan Dan (People’s Army) newspaper in Vietnam.

Ha Giang, a province in Vietnam’s northeast, contains Vietnam’s northernmost point and shares a 270 kilometer-long border with China’s Yunnan province. In addition to the border gate of Than Thuy, there are several other smaller gates as well.