His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including China. Brendan joined Newsweek in 2018 from the International Business ...

Photo: Ju Peng/Alexander Kazakov/Associated Press/Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Xi Jinping has been a close observer of Russia’s three-year old war in Ukraine. China’s president has been ...

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its loss will, for instance, severely complicate Russian efforts to resupply its troops in Libya, and Sub-Saharan Africa. But while Vladimir Putin's fortunes are waning, China is filling the gaps ...

BEIJING, Jan 20 (Reuters) - China, the world's top coal importer, bought less Russian coal in 2024 while increasing purchases from other key suppliers, led by Australia, during a record year for ...

China has become a major customer for Russian oil and gas and a source of key technologies amid sweeping Western sanctions on Moscow. In the call with Xi, Putin emphasized that Russia-China ...

China and Russia declared a "no limits" partnership in February 2022 when Putin visited Beijing, days before he sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine, and in recent months Putin has also ...

China imported record volumes of coal last year, but imports from its second-largest supplier, Russia, dipped by 7% as the U.S. intensified sanctions on Russian coal exporters and China re-imposed ...

Aframax oil tankers that serviced crude oil exports from Russia’s western ports are now being redirected to the Russian Far East-China route to service the exports of Russia’s ESPO crude, a ...

Expressing that Russia and China are building their ties on the basis of matters such as friendship and mutual trust and benefit, Putin said these relations are "self-sufficient" and do not depend ...