China

Defense Minister Li Shangfu’s speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue was more interested in assigning blame than advancing solutions.

India has long used its navy to build ties with maritime nations in the Indo-Pacific, but this exercise steps up collaboration by tying up with ASEAN as a group.

The deaths of two Uyghur refugees in a detention center in Thailand shed light on the grave injustice that is the continued imprisonment of Uyghurs. 

Wang said China hopes the Taliban-appointed Afghan interim government will "take solid steps in the right direction.”

Xi has prepared an "important speech" and the six leaders are expected to jointly sign an "important political document.”

The U.S. depends on China for critical minerals, the backbone of the digital economy and modern military power. 

It is unclear whether the U.K. government is willing to translate its words about human rights into action and hold Chinese officials responsible for serious human rights violations. 

After the April 27 meeting between the Indian and Chinese defense ministers, the two sides failed to issue a joint statement -- a telling clue as to how the meeting went. 

Dong Yuyu regularly met with foreign journalists and diplomats to help understand global trends. But Chinese authorities regarded his contacts with foreign diplomats as evidence of spying.

India may have its own relations with Russia, but Moscow and Beijing’s closeness is a growing problem for New Delhi.

The Chinese ambassador to France suggested in an interview that the states of the former Soviet Union were not recognized as sovereign. Beijing walked the comments back.

Whether France can be a trusted partner in managing China is a question that many have asked after the fiasco of Macron’s visit.