Soldiers attend the opening ceremony of Cobra Gold, Asia's largest annual multilateral military exercise, at U-Tapao International airport, Rayong province, Thailand, on Feb 27, 2023. - Reuters
BANGKOK (Bloomberg): Thailand kicked off an international military exercise with the biggest US attendance in a decade as Washington seeks to build on ties with a key security partner at a time of rising global geopolitical competition with Beijing.
The Cobra Gold military drill in Thailand, which runs from Feb 28 to March 10, is the largest joint military exercise in mainland Asia involving 30 countries. It has been running for more than four decades and this year was billed as a return to full-scale drills after the pandemic.
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