Vladimir Putin

Beijing’s 12-point strategy may be worth reconsidering as US fails to create negotiating atmosphere of trust and respect.

Balance between Russia, China and America looks set to replace European Atlanticism and US hegemony, and it’s not a bad thing.

Kim Jong-un’s outreach to Moscow and the absence of greetings for Xi Jinping suggest Pyongyang is exploiting Russia’s need for support while testing Beijing.

Global spending on defence is rising at the expense of social needs. The ‘peace dividend’ years are over.

As more countries join bloc, President Xi Jinping is urging members to take green, low-carbon route and practise ‘true multilateralism’.

The West’s proxy war is floundering while its moral case against Russia has self-destructed over its full complicity in Israel’s actions.

Championing low government regulation, free global trade and the need to face down autocrats worldwide will be an uphill struggle.

Despite warm greetings and ‘no limits’ partnerships, leaders of the three powerful countries must navigate constant friction in their triangular dynamic.

By missing summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Indian PM has wasted chance to address strained relations between two countries.

If the odds were low that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would go nuclear, Putin’s recent statement indicates Moscow’s stance is changing.

Following summit between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, the two sides vow to take on Washington’s ‘dual containment’ policy aimed at Russia and China. But a quasi-alliance with Moscow is hardly the recipe for Beijing to make more friends.

Beijing red-carpet welcome by President Xi Jinping for his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, reflects how nations have been drawn together by actions of others.