China tight-lipped on disappeared Interpol chief

AFP | China remained silent Saturday over the disappearance of the head of Interpol, deepening the mystery over the international police chief's fate after reports...

GRU, Russia’s spy agency with growing global footprint

AFP | Russia's powerful GRU intelligence agency is facing international accusations that it carried out large-scale cyber attacks including a foiled attempt to hack into...

“Pariah State”: British minister slams Russia

AFP | Britain's defence minister on Thursday condemned Russia as a "pariah state" after London accused Kremlin spies of mounting a campaign of cyber attacks...

US, China look on as Putin seeks India arms deals

AFP | Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in India on Thursday looking to tie up billions of dollars in arms deals with Prime Minister Narendra...

Leave South China sea: Chinese warship warns US destroyer

AFP | A Chinese warship sailed within yards of an American destroyer -- forcing it to change course -- in an "unsafe and unprofessional" encounter...

Are Chinese debts going to kill CPEC?

News Analysis | Despite assurances by the government of Pakistan that Islamabad is completely on board with Beijing vis-à-vis the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, some in...

Cold War returns? Russia & China condemn American “Blackmail”

AFP | China and Russia denounced the use of "blackmail" Friday in thinly-veiled rebukes of President Donald Trump, highlighting the chasm between the US and...

Russia vows to crush Syria jihadists once and for all

AFP | Russia on Friday warned it will not allow jihadists in Syria to be sent to Afghanistan or elsewhere under a deal reached with...

US-China ties sour as Xi, Trump friendship fades

AFP | For more than a year, Chinese leader Xi Jinping could count on one thing even as his government clashed with the United States...

EU launches Asia strategy to rival China’s ‘new Silk Road’

AFP | As doubts grow over China's vast "Belt and Road" trade infrastructure project, the EU is launching an alternative plan for Asia that it...

Nepal reinstates $2.5bn hydropower deal with Chinese firm

AFP | Nepal has reinstated a deal with a Chinese state-owned company to build a $2.5 billion hydroelectric plant scrapped by the previous government, officials...

Middle Eastern black swans dot China’s Belt and Road – James M. Dorsey

James M. Dorsey | If any one part of the world has forced China to throw its long-standing foreign and defense policy principles out the...