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 has pushed back after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Chinese support is invaluable to Russia's ability to continue its invasion—in a rare public criticism of the East Asian country.

Iran, Russia, and China have formally challenged recent moves by Western powers to reimpose sanctions under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in a joint letter addressed to Rafael Mariano Grossi,

As the Arctic ice melts, a new Cold War is heating up. Russia and China are rewriting the rules of global power, testing missiles, flexing muscles, and pushing into the world’s last frontiers. A 294-metre container ship has just blazed through the Arctic route from China to Europe in record time.

Since its creation in 2001, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) had seldom drawn the kind of attention generated by its 2025 summit in Tianjin. The event featured the first high-level meeting in seven years between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Despite repeated U.S. efforts to cripple the Arctic LNG 2 facility, once described by the Biden administration as “dead in the water,” Russia has shipped at least 11 tankers of liquefied natural gas since August, ship-tracking data show. The cargoes have all arrived at China’s Beihai port, now a critical hub for importing discounted Russian energy.

Despite these points, China’s role in supporting Russia is not a black-and-white issue for Europe. In fact, China poses a much more sophisticated hard security problem for NATO and Europe than Russia does. There are three main reasons why it is unwise to treat Russia and China as hard security actors in the same way.

While the exercise only involved two subs, the warning was clear: America should contemplate the prospect of confronting a China-Russia alliance.

Major Chinese state oil companies have reportedly stopped imports of Russian crude oil in response to US sanctions. But Beijing has its own playbook to follow as it navigates the latest energy sanctions.