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Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping and India’s Narendra Modi met on Monday in Tianjin for a rare show of unity. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit gave Putin the chance to sit down with his two biggest oil customers and to push back against U.S. pressure. India and China began buying more Russian crude…
World leaders opposed to the West are converging in Beijing this week for a grand military parade marking 80 years since Japan’s defeat in World War II. The event, staged by President Xi Jinping, is meant to showcase China’s military strength and growing role as a counterweight to the U.S.-led global order. The parade, set…
Russian President Vladimir Putin called his relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping “unprecedented” during talks in Beijing on Tuesday, just hours before China stages its biggest military parade in history. Putin praised Xi as a “dear friend,” while Chinese state media described their partnership as “exemplary.” The two leaders announced new agreements: Russia will boost…
In his 2020 book The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World, Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar wrote that Delhi must “engage America, manage China, cultivate Europe, reassure Russia, bring Japan into play, draw neighbours in, extend the neighbourhood and expand traditional constituencies of support.” That balancing act is being tested like never before. For…
Beijing has strongly criticised Washington’s steep tariffs on India, with the Chinese ambassador in Delhi, Xu Feihong, calling the US a “bully” and urging stronger co-operation between India and China. Speaking in the Indian capital on Thursday, Xu said the US had long enjoyed the benefits of free trade but was now weaponising tariffs as…
