Russia and North Korea reached an agreement on a comprehensive strategic partnership but not all is going smoothly as both sides fail to fulfill their promises.
Xi and Putin's Beijing summit in May deepened China-Russia ties, integrating their soft and hard powers and blurring the line between wartime and peacetime.
With expansionist and realpolitik agendas binding them, the current graph of China's foreign and security policy appears most closely aligned with that of Russia. Both countries...
China must be made to end its support and creation of loopholes for Russia to escape the sanctions imposed on it because of its ongoing war...
Japan's leaders need to put their political lives on the line to negotiate seriously with China. Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi's visit failed to do that.
The G7’s weak unity against Russian oil imports and China’s support for Moscow have left Western sanctions ineffective against the invasion of Ukraine.
The emergence of China in the post-Ukraine conflict world will be a seismic shift that will challenge every major democratic player, globally and regionally.
“Japan must work to defend itself, and must maintain the power needed to prevent war from breaking out in the first place” ー Former PM Shinzo...
“I would like people to have the same sense of urgency that they would have if they thought that a missile would come flying over their...
China’s Zhang Jun heard how “children were killed, women were raped,” but still voted not to expel Russia from the UN Human Rights Council.
China’s military expansion remains unabated and, like Russia, Xi Jinping appears to be laying the groundwork for dispatching troops overseas.
The Chinese are persistent and intelligent, and they have said where they intend to end up ー including taking territory that currently belongs to other countries.