The storm clouds for China were gathering when leader Xi Jinping convened the country’s top scientists at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in May 2018. The U.S. was beginning to clamp ...

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But meeting in Beijing on Thursday for the second time in seven months, the pair walked in lockstep from the moment Xi greeted Putin in Tiananmen Square with a red-carpet welcome, complete with ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin's potential peace initiative to end the war in Ukraine faces stiff resistance from hawkish anti-Western nationalists at home. Pavel Gubarev, a pro-Moscow activist in ...

As the Russian tanks rolled through Red Square to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin stood side-by-side in an ...