Russia and China have moved closer to an agreement on the long-standing Power of Siberia-2 gas-pipeline project, which is meant to significantly increase Russian gas supplies to the PRC.
Today’s proximity between Beijing and Moscow is not a coincidence but a deliberate political choice, underpinned by economic complementarity and a shared anti-Western lens.
The leaders of China, Russia and India appeared before the press holding hands and pledging deeper cooperation—a gesture aimed not only at participants of the gathering but also at Washington.
Germany’s Defense Minister Boris Pistorius publicly poured cold water on talk of a hypothetical EU deployment to police a cease-fire in Ukraine.
At the SCO summit in Tianjin, Chinese leader Xi Jinping cast Beijing as a defender of “justice and fairness.”
