China, India curb Russian oil purchases
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China has pushed back after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Chinese support is invaluable to Russia's ability to continue its invasion—in a rare public criticism of the East Asian country.
MOSCOW and Beijing are unleashing a new kind of warfare on the West – and it’s waged not with bullets, but with bedsheets. US intelligence insiders say Russian and Chinese operatives
Donald Trump has said he would like China's help to deal with Russia as he seeks to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. "I'd like China to help us out with Russia," the US president said on board Air Force One, as he flew to Asia for a whirlwind tour, where he will meet China's Xi Jinping in South Korea.
China's swift growth and diversification of its nuclear capabilities have led to concerns that Beijing might engage in "nuclear blackmail" or even nuclear conflict with Western countries if they intervene in a Taiwan dispute.
China is pushing ahead with imports of US-sanctioned Russian liquefied natural gas, after the White House stopped short of putting additional restrictions on the trade in its latest wave of sanctions.
I’m just back from Central Asia where I spent a fortnight travelling through Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.