US warns Chinese firms against helping Russia against potential Ukraine sanctions
WASHINGTON: The United States warned Chinese firms on Thursday (Feb 3) they would face consequences if they sought to evade any export controls imposed on...
Xi, Putin meet in Beijing, discusses new deal to supply gas to China
Vladimir Putin also said that the Russian oil business has "new solutions" on supplies of hydrocarbons to China. President Vladimir Putin told Chinese President Xi...
Global diplomatic failure made Covid ‘far worse’, says leading expert
Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust who quit as a UK government adviser in November, has previously bemoaned failures in international cooperation on Covid-19...
In Beijing, the subject on everybody’s mind but not lips
As competitions began in a Winter Olympics overshadowed by controversy over China’s record on human rights, the issue of what participants can and cannot say...