Russia, Ukraine and Trump
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Russia, Ukraine and China
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For Europe, China’s close ties with Russia and perceived support for its war effort have overshadowed ties between China and Europe for more than three years. In Beijing, European Council President António Costa told his counterparts that China should “use its influence on Russia to respect the United Nations Charter and to bring an end of its war of aggression against Ukraine.
Trump is due to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders at the White House on Monday, August 18, to press Kyiv to make a deal with Russia, which is demanding that land be ceded to Moscow.
President Donald Trump is meeting with Vladimir Putin, and security analysts caution that China views the talks as a test case for potential aggression in the Indo-Pacific region.
Anthony Albanese has been accused of speaking out of both sides of its mouth after the Prime Minister spruiked a peacekeeping presence in Ukraine while saying nothing about how China is enabling President Vladimir Putin’s war.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s high-stakes diplomacy to resolve the war in Ukraine is unlikely to jolt oil and gas markets, no matter the outcome.
After Marco Rubio's explanation on why China was spared from additional tariffs despite being Russia's biggest oil buyer, the White House has now confirmed the 'sanctions on India' were in fact meant to tackle the Ukraine conflict.
The Alaska summit between President Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, was more than a high-stakes encounter over the Ukraine war. It signaled America’s recognition that its own missteps have helped drive Russia closer to China, fueling a de facto alliance that poses the gravest threat to U.S. global preeminence since the Cold War.
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Exclusive: Putin's demand to Ukraine: give up Donbas, no NATO and no Western troops, sources say
Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking told Reuters.