THE TRICOLOR OF PEACEKEEPING
‘Wearing the blue helmet makes you feel like a heavyweight in the pursuit and support of peace,” He Yongxue, a battalion commander in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), told Beijing-based PLA Daily. Selected as a member of the new peacekeeping infantry battalion to South Sudan, he needs to switch roles and throw himself into the intense training schedule before leaving China to embark on his new mission.
He participated in the Shared Destiny-2021 UN peacekeeping field training exercise from September 6 to 15. This is the first-ever such event to be organized by the Chinese military, and also the first multilateral drill to assess the achievements of China’s peacekeeping standby force.
Joint events like Shared Destiny-2021 are important as a means of improving UN peacekeeping capabilities as well as its talent pool. China’s armed forces have thus far conducted various peacekeeping exercises and training programs together with the UN, other countries and
