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China’s rich flee crackdowns for ‘Asia’s Switzerland’ Singapore

Chinese wealth is rushing into the Southeast Asian city-state, prompting unease among some locals.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine urges UN meeting on Putin’s nuclear weapons plan

Kyiv demanded an extraordinary meeting of the U.N. Security Council in its first official response to Vladimir Putin’s announcement that Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

Tribune News Service

Putin: Russia, China Are not Creating Military Alliance

Russia and China are not creating a military alliance and the cooperation between their armed forces is "transparent", President Vladimir Putin said in comments broadcast on Sunday, days after hosting Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the Kremlin. Putin and Xi professed friendship and pledged closer ties, including in the military…

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Is war with China inevitable?

There's no clear evidence that China is likely to invade Taiwan anytime soon. Why is Washington fixated on war?

Salon

New allegations and a resignation strain already fraught China-Canada relations

Han Dong’s departure escalates row over allegations that Beijing meddled in Canada’s elections as friction between countries grows

The Guardian - US

On the border with Belarus, Ukrainian troops prep for a long war — and the front line

Russian forces crossed from Belarus into Ukraine a year ago, headed for Kyiv, before their unexpected retreat. As the war drags on, Ukraine is fortifying even the quietest stretch of this border.

WEKU

An anxious Asia arms for a war it hopes to prevent

TINIAN, Northern Mariana Islands: The tiny island of Tinian was the launch point for U.S. planes carrying atomic bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Now a new runway is being carved from the jungle, just south of World War II ruins.

Bangkok Post

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The world still needs a policeman. Let’s hope the US doesn’t quit the job

America’s record at keeping global order is deeply flawed, but the only winners from its drift towards isolationism will be Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin

The Guardian - UK

Spain's PM Sanchez to push for 'territorial integrity' for Ukraine in China visit

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday he would push for fair peace in the war in Ukraine that included "territorial integrity" during a state visit to China next week.

Reuters

Russia will not stop war unless world unites, Zelenskyy warns

KYIV -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized that the entire international order is under threat from the Russian aggression against his country in an exclusive interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun on Thursday. Zelenskyy's distrust of a 12-point proposal made by China was also evident.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Xi and Putin Meeting Signals the Return of the China-Russia Axis and the Start of a Second Cold War

China’s and Russia’s roles have been reversed, and their ambitions restored — not in the name of communist ideology, but in light of an aggressive, militarist nationalism that animates both regimes.

The News Lens

New Zealand tells China its concern on lethal aid to Russia

New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta has expressed concern to China over any provision of lethal aid to support Russia in its war against Ukraine during a meeting with her Chinese counterpart

The Independent UK

China warned against choosing new Dalai Lama

DHARAMSALA, India: The president of the Tibetan government-in-exile has warned China not to interfere in selecting the successor to the Dalai Lama, the current spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.

Bangkok Post

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

The Ukrainian father who rescued his children from Russia; a tale of two visits as Xi meets with Putin and Kishida travels to Kyiv

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Little room for maneuver as U.S.-China ties slide further

President Joe Biden said last month after a U.S. fighter jet shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon that he planned to speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping about the episode and clear the air between the rival superpowers.

Tribune News Service

Russia seeks 400,000 more recruits as latest Ukraine push stalls

The Kremlin has dialed back plans for a further offensive in Ukraine this spring after failing to gain much ground and will focus on blunting a new push by Kyiv’s forces expected to begin soon.

Asharq Al-Awsat

EU's Borrell: Russia-China Partnership Has Limits

China's partnership with Russia has limits, despite rhetoric to the contrary, and Europe should welcome any attempts by Beijing to distance itself from Moscow's war in Ukraine, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Friday. Borrell's remarks followed a summit this week between Russian President Vladimir Putin and…

The Conversation

China’s latest diplomatic move will extend its trade, energy, financial and maritime power

China’s billions of dollars in global investments and infrastructure projects seem to be paying off politically and economically.

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Chicago Tribune

Editorial: Xi has been an apologist for Putin. Will he also be his lethal arms supplier?

For Ukraine, the war against Russia is existential. Defeat means extinction as a sovereign nation, and the destruction of Ukrainian identity.

Tribune News Service

Martin Schram: Xi, Putin 'no limits' pact has limits, after all

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin ended their Moscow summit this week by showcasing economic help and diplomatic support China will provide the now supplicant banana-less republic that is Putin’s Russia today.

The Guardian - US

‘Brazil is back’: Lula to visit Xi as he resets diplomatic relations with China

Meeting is part of high-profile tour as Brazil’s president attempts to repair country’s reputation after the Bolsonaro era

The Guardian - UK

Brokering peace in Ukraine would be good for Xi and China: is he adroit enough to pull it off?

The war is a test of China’s ability to manage its interests. Putin, Zelenskiy, the EU, the global south: it’s trying to keep them all on side, says Yu Jie, a senior research fellow at Chatham House

The Independent UK

Scandal-plagued China soccer hit by new corruption probes

China’s scandal-plagued official Football Association has been rocked by new corruption probes into its chiefs of discipline and competition

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 394

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 394th day, we take a look at the main developments.

The Independent UK

Trump arrested? Putin jailed? Fake AI images spread online

Fake images of former President Donald Trump being arrested by New York City police and Russian President Vladimir Putin behind prison bars have flooded social media in recent days

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