China has pushed back after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Chinese support is invaluable to Russia's ability to continue its invasion—in a rare public criticism of the East Asian country.

Together with Russia’s third and fourth biggest producers, Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegaz, targeted in the last days of the Biden White House, the US has now blacklisted Russia’s top four oil companies, accounting for about four-fifths of its oil exports.

While the exercise only involved two subs, the warning was clear: America should contemplate the prospect of confronting a China-Russia alliance.

China's yuan-denominated exports to Russia in September posted their biggest drop in seven months, accelerating the decline seen in August, Chinese customs data showed on Monday.

With US President Donald Trump repeatedly expressing his ambition to bring Greenland under US control and Russia and China vying for influence in the Arctic, the world’s largest island has emerged as a key Arctic battleground.

I’m just back from Central Asia where I spent a fortnight travelling through Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Despite these points, China’s role in supporting Russia is not a black-and-white issue for Europe. In fact, China poses a much more sophisticated hard security problem for NATO and Europe than Russia does. There are three main reasons why it is unwise to treat Russia and China as hard security actors in the same way.

Trump said he wants China’s help in managing relations with Russia as he began a five-day trip to Asia, his first visit to the region since taking office. The tour comes amid trade tensions, the Ukraine war,