guys this means send your leaders/diplomats not your troops: Xinhai has issued an open invitation for international viewing of the newly announced Stride-2026 military exercises. Specific invitations have been extended to global and regional powers, including Mothron, the USVA, Elysia, the UE, Polestar, USC, Stakraine, and PAX Armada. Following 8 months of extensive preparation, this event is set to take place in Southwestern Xinhai. Overall, it is slated to involve some 836,000 personnel, 984 aircraft, 1,800 MBTs, 104 large naval vessels, 1,238 UAVs, and 2,000 miscellaneous armored vehicles. This would, if executed as expected, make Xinhai responsible for the largest peacetime display of force in human history.
Economic and political blowback: During these past eight months, the prices of oil and gas have risen exponentially due to the sheer volume of fuel acquired by Xinhai for this exercise. In the buildup to this aswell, prices for imported goods worldwide have risen across the board due to a marked shift in shipping routes to avoid the 'exercise zone' in which Xinhai's fleet will be operating. If this maneuver is everything it is expected to be, it may well raise Xinhai's worldwide ranking in terms of military power to the #2 spot, if not a contender for #1, given its demonstration of unprecedented logistical ability.
