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1,500 new recruits of the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB) carried out drills on a remote island in the East China Sea as part of the manoeuvre.
Troops will be trained to counter the invasion of a group of islands owned by Japan along the edge of the East China Sea — that Tokyo fears are at risk of an attack from China.
China is massively outspending its neighbour Japan in defence and this year is set to spend 1.1 trillion yuan (£123.9 billion) more than three times that of Japan.