Chinese President Xi Jinping has begun a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Beijing, official news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday.

India used the air base at Ayni in Tajikistan during a 2001 evacuation operation after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan.

Russia is sinking ever deeper into economic dependence on China. Raw-material projects in the Far East and Siberia are turning the region into a resource base for Beijing, while local communities remain excluded from the promised benefits.

In a recent CBS News interview, President Trump discussed various topics, including nuclear testing by Russia and China, immigration control, and criticised former President Barack Obama. He also blamed Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown and rejected calls for compromise.

China and Russia have deployed attractive women to the United States to seduce unwitting Silicon Valley tech executives as part of a “sex warfare” operation aimed at stealing American technology secrets, according to a report.

China’s rulers want to show it is in their people’s interests to keep America focused on Europe, according to the EU’s foreign-policy chief