President Donald Trump is meeting with Vladimir Putin, and security analysts caution that China views the talks as a test case for potential aggression in the Indo-Pacific region.

Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice evaluated President Trump's Friday meeting with Vladimir Putin during an appearance Friday evening on MSNBC. Rice said it was a diplomatic victory for Putin to get such a "warm welcome" from Trump on U.

Yoga guru Ramdev asserted that India, Russia, and China are forming an alliance to counter what he termed as America's "political and economic hooliganism." He claimed India is rising to challenge the US,

China has taken countermeasures against two banks in the European Union, in response to the bloc placing two Chinese financial institutions on a Russia-related sanctions list, its commerce ministry said on Wednesday.

Ukraine’s ambassador is warning of a growing threat from China and Russia as Australia marks the end of World War II in the Pacific, saying what happens in his country could “open a Pandora’s box” in the region.

An annual joint patrol by the Russian Navy and People’s Liberation Army Navy is well underway, with the countries’ warships sailing together through the La Perouse Strait and to the Sea of Okhotsk in recent days.

The danger today may not be as acute as it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. But it is much more diffuse, complicated and unpredictable than it has ever been,” Kluth writes.

"Strengthening air defense capabilities is clearly an urgent priority for Iran at the moment," expert Hongda Fan told Newsweek.

Why China continues to support Russia in the war, what Ukraine's Western partners are doing to stop it, and why they have not yet succeeded are analyzed in the article by RBC-Ukraine. Key questions ・What is China's strategy towards Russia?