"My expectations are always that we continue to be friends," the former pilot gunner, who joined the Flying Tigers in 1944, told Xinhua on the sidelines of the 4th Sino-American Second World War Friendship and Flying Tiger History Conference held here on Friday and Saturday.
For almost 60 years, China has been hosting exercises in its largest military training ground, the Zhurihe Combined Tactics Training Base, to prepare Chinese troops for future.
A formal memorial service will be held Monday for 52 Chinese pilots killed during pilot trainings in the United States in the 1940s in a national cemetery in El Paso, Texas.
China and Russia have wrapped up joint naval exercises off the coast of Qingdao in east China's Shandong Province. Major combat drills were carried out on and off the ships.
