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...

U.S move of sanctioning China for buying Russian military hardware is not going to play well

News Analysis | U.S state department has imposed fresh economic sanctions over Russia, blacklisting further companies, military and intelligence personnel for “malign activities”. It is...

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...