Tightened U.S. sanctions on Moscow have disrupted a roaring trade in discounted Russian oil to China and India, reviving demand for Middle Eastern and African crudes, roiling shipping markets and driving up oil prices.

China is helping Russia's military drone production by becoming a hub for the smuggling of critical Western components for Moscow's armed forces, Estonia's foreign intelligence said in its annual national security report published on Wednesday.

Trump was wrong to say Ukraine started the war with Russia. But the main threat to the United States is the woke left, Islamists and China, not Moscow.

China's President Xi Jinping had a call with Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Monday and said he was pleased with Moscow's efforts to hold a summit with the U.S. toward ending the war in Ukraine,

Unlike Nixon and Kissinger’s gambit in the 1970s, the strategy threatens to divide the West.

China and Russia’s 2022 proclamation of a “no limits” partnership with “no ‘forbidden’ areas” has had a far-reaching effect. The agreement implied that Beijing and Moscow were about to resurrect their long-defunct alliance that,

China said it was ‘glad to see all efforts committed to peace’ by Moscow and Washington, but stressed that Ukraine must eventually be included.

The potential for a U.S.-Russia reset, driven by the Trump administration’s foreign policy, is creating anxiety in China, which fears a weakening of its strategic partnership with Moscow and increased geopolitical challenges.

The greatest challenge for the democratic countries of Western civilization will be to break the criminal tandem of Beijing and Moscow, which aims to destroy the existing world order