"We have reason to believe that China engaged Russia and said: 'Don't go there,'" outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the Financial Times on Jan. 3.

Russian President Vladimir Putin continues seeking to expand his challenge of the West's order — this time in tech. The Russian leader has ordered his government and Russian banking giant Sberbank to work with China on artificial intelligence,

The U.S. secretary of state told the Financial Times that pressure from Beijing dissuaded Vladimir Putin from using nuclear weapons.

The Russian president hobnobbed with world leaders and received a plethora of gifts, including a pair of hunting dogs.

Xi emphasized that China and Russia consistently advance together on a "path of non-alliance, non-confrontation, and not targeting any third party," according to the official Chinese news agency Xinhua.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed condolences to Chinese President Xi Jinping over the human casualties caused by the earthquake in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. This is reported by the Kremlin website.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to Chinese leader Xi Jinping following a devastating 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Tibet that resulted in at least 95 fatalities. The quake affected the northern Himalayas and was felt in neighboring Nepal,

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Sberbank's CEO German Gref attend AI Journey, an international conference on artificial intelligence technology, in Moscow, Russia, on December 11, 2024. Photo: VCG Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government and Sberbank,

Western sanctions intended to restrict Moscow’s access to the technologies it needs to sustain its war against Ukraine have resulted in the world’s major producers of microchips halting exports to Russia,

Russia has endured over 700,000 casualties since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022—more than in all of Moscow’s conflicts since World War II combined, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Jan.

As the Arctic region undergoes changes due to climate change, the melting of the ice opens up a new frontier, unlocking untapped resources and potential new trade routes.