Prior to and following President Biden's trip to Europe, prominent US media outlets speculated about outcomes of a possible military conflict between the US and either China or Russia. Although they vary on the political spectrum with Bloomberg leaning left, while the National Interest staying centric - the...More

As the recent expulsions of Russian diplomats from the US, Poland, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic demonstrate, this measure is becoming a standard international practice of the West. For the Biden administration, a new manifestation of the "Russia's threat" is an additional tool to discipline its European allies...More

When the US vowed to return to multilateralism and try to fix its alliance by stressing values of "democracy and human rights" and forming cliques to confront other countries that reject US hegemony, China and Russia have stood up to break the silence and provide their definition of...More

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Guilin, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and met with Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday. Lavrov's visit is significant. First, this is the first high-level face-to-face meeting between China and Russia since the pandemic. Second, this...More

As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov started a two-day trip to China on Monday, days after senior Chinese and US officials clashed openly during a bilateral meeting, a major topic in talks with Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi is how to counter US sanctions --...More

COVID-19 vaccine cooperation is expected to be the focus of the BRICS summit, observers said, noting that against the backdrop of COVID-19, cooperation on the vaccines has become the highlight of China's diplomacy this year, which offers a glimmer of hope for the world, and further reflects China's...More

Affected by the continuous spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 12th BRICS (an acronym coined for the five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) Summit, originally scheduled to be held at the end of July 2020, will be held Tuesday via virtual conference....More

In 2009, US scholar Robert Kaplan called the Indian Ocean the center stage for the 21 century, stressing the growing significance of the region in the world politics. After former US president Barack Obama launched the rebalance to Asia-Pacific strategy, and President Donald Trump made a decision to...More

On September 19, Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said in an interview with the Japanese publication Nikkei Asia Review that Russia will not join a US coalition against China or others. This is not the first time that Moscow has rejected an anti-China coalition. As early...More

Editor's Notes: Relations between China and the US have hit the lowest point in 40 years amid US efforts to contain China's rise. Some scholars voiced concern there is an ongoing new cold war between China and the US comparable to the 20th century hostilities between the US and...More

The Chinese Embassy in Russia said early on Wednesday that China-Russia land border crossings will remain closed until further notice. This came after some media quoted Russian officials to have said that China-Russia land border checkpoints would be reopened before September 1. The media reports are not correct,...More

China officially began the world's largest tunnel construction under a major river on Tuesday, kick starting the construction of the 1,509-kilometer-long southern Chinese section of the China-Russia east-route natural gas pipeline. A Chinese oil industry analyst said the project will help cushion rising geopolitical risks. The tunnel under...More

The US has created quite a farce on world stage regarding arms control lately. During its nuclear arms control talks with Russia in Vienna in June, the US delegation put out non-standard Chinese flags on the negotiating tables. Fu Cong, head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Department of...More

The sudden deterioration of US-China relations to the level of confrontation is perhaps the most important geopolitical development that happened during the COVID-19 pandemic. It appears that a point of no return has been reached. What started as a trade war and a conflict over intellectual property rights...More

TCM doctors in Russia were among the first ones to act in the COVID-19 outbreak, helping ease the nervousness of Chinese residents at the onset of the pandemic. "We mainly direct people to prevent the disease by using TCM means. If the patients get severe, we help them...More