Xi Jinping

China is the biggest buyer of Russian oil and gas, which pumps billions of dollars into Putin’s treasury and helps the Kremlin resist Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine

The State Department announced Monday that the U.S. will send Ukraine a new aid package worth $350 million in weapons and equipment

The Chinese president’s visit to Moscow shows off Beijing’s new diplomatic swagger and gives a welcome political lift for his Russian counterpart

U.S. President Joe Biden said Friday he believes the decision by the International Criminal Court in The Hague to charge Putin was “justified”

Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine is expected to dominate the discussions between the two leaders. China has refused to condemn Moscow’s aggression

Guo Wengui was charged in an indictment in federal court in Manhattan with various charges, including wire, securities and bank fraud

Visa-free entry also will resume at destinations such as Hainan island as well as for cruise ships entering Shanghai

Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said the arrangement, given the acronym AUKUS arises from the ‘typical Cold War mentality which will only motivate an arms race’

Here are the main takeaways from the National People’s Congress, where the president highlighted the importance of reunification, and took a softer tone on the technological race with the US

The Pentagon is asking Congress for $842 billion in the 2024 budget year. It’s the largest request since the peak of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in the mid-2000s

The extra money will be used, in part, to replenish Britain’s ammunition stocks, depleted from supplying Ukraine in its defense against Russia

The US struggles to retain its supremacy, China catches up and overtakes the leader in many areas while the EU is falling behind

Li was nominated by Xi and appointed to the position at Saturday morning’s session of the National People’s Congress, China’s ceremonial parliament

The new foreign minister, a former ambassador to the United States and a member of President Xi Jinping’s inner circle, is skilled at handling the news media

The deal represents a major diplomatic victory for the Chinese as Gulf Arab states perceive the United States slowly withdrawing from the wider Middle East

The Chinese leader will stay in power for life at a time of severe economic challenges and rising tensions with the US and other countries

Canada should “stop sensationalizing and hyping the matter and stop attacks and smears on China,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said

Chinese policymakers are meeting this week in Beijing to set a course for the Asian giant

Xi, who has bolstered the state sector, has said that he wants the ruling party to return to its “original mission” as China’s economic, social and cultural leader

China must maximize its ‘national strategic capabilities’ in a bid to ‘systematically upgrade the country’s overall strength to cope with strategic risks,’ he said

The Chinese president said that a US-led campaign of ‘containment and suppression’ of his country has ‘brought unprecedented, severe challenges’

The self-governing island, which China considers an inalienable part of its territory, is drawing lessons from the Russian invasion as Washington ups military assistance

Qin’s harsh language appeared to defy predictions that China might abandon its aggressive “wolf warrior” diplomacy in favor of more moderate rhetoric

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Western allies would support Ukraine for “as long as it takes”

Washington has issued a warning against any attempt by Beijing to provide military support to Moscow while the FBI assesses coronavirus originated in a ‘potential lab incident in Wuhan’

Lawmakers sought to demonstrate unity and the panel’s top Democrat made clear that he doesn’t want a “clash of civilizations” but a durable peace

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a challenge to the world order that has precipitated military, geopolitical, economic and human consequences on a planetary scale