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The US is profiting from its campaign to impose anti-Russian sanctions, while even its close allies are suffering, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said during a briefing on Wednesday. The drive for anti-Russian sanctions should be dropped to resolve the Ukrainian crisis, he claimed. Washington is coercing other nations …

NATO plans to deepen its cooperation with partners in Asia as a response to a rising “security challenge” coming from China, which refuses to condemn Russia’s ongoing military operation in Ukraine, the US-led bloc’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg revealed during a press conference on Tuesday. He announced that the bloc will …

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) deployed more than 2,000 military medics to Shanghai on Sunday to help their civilian colleagues test the city’s entire population amid a Covid-19 outbreak. Reports confirming that the army has been called in appeared in a PLA newspaper. The military reinforcements came on top of …

Latin American nations have been distancing themselves from their neighbor to the north and joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative, US senators discussed on Thursday during a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing. The senators spoke of the looming threat of Chinese influence in Latin America – a region which was …

Chinese leaders have brushed back pressure from the EU to take an anti-Russia stance in the Ukraine conflict, warning that cooperation between Beijing and Brussels is needed to prevent long-term damage to the global economy. Speaking by videoconference on Friday in a summit meeting with EU leaders, Chinese President Xi …

Since the conflict in Ukraine began, there has been a concerted effort to try and establish greater ‘transatlantic’ control over Western Europe’s foreign policy, or to speak more explicitly, to put it in line with that of the United States. America’s foreign influence operations on the continent are huge, ranging …

China believes NATO should have been dissolved after the USSR, which it was created to contain, no longer existed, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said. Instead, it expanded and cornered Russia, triggering bloodshed in Ukraine, Zhao said. “As a product of the Cold War, NATO should have become history …

China has decided to restrict visas for a number of US officials in response to similar measures introduced by Washington earlier this month over alleged human rights abuses. “The Chinese side decided to impose retaliatory visa restrictions on certain US officials who spread lies on the issue of human rights, …

The head of the de facto US embassy in Taiwan has accused China of “provocative” military moves near the island, saying Beijing has undermined regional peace while vowing to “strengthen” security ties with Taipei. Sandra Oudkirk – who directs the American Institute in Taiwan, the unofficial US embassy on the …

Chess grandmaster Sergei Shipov has said that Russia should host chess tournaments with players from countries that are “loyal” to it invited – including China, India and Belarus. Russia has been banned from holding events run by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) as a result of the attack on Ukraine, although …