China could obstruct peace negotiations between Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, a noted Sinophile warns.

Chinese and Russian warships wrapped up a 15-day joint maritime patrol in the Western Pacific on Wednesday, with experts saying that the voyage boosted the two navies joint operational capabilities and played a positive role in safeguarding peace and stability.

According to the Federation of American Scientists, the Tu-95MS bomber can carry six to 16 nuclear-armed, air-launched cruise missiles. Last November, the Russian military deployed this type of bomber for a joint patrol over the Sea of Japan with Chinese bombers.

Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin is due to visit China this week as head of a parliamentary delegation, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified sources.

August, I joined a team organized by the Institute of Area Studies at Peking University for a 14-day field survey along the China-Russia border. We traveled nearly 3,000 kilometers, gathering a wealth of vivid firsthand material on the state of China-Russia border trade amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed Russian leader Vladimir Putin as a “friend” while his government moved to bolster relations with China, another sign the South Asian nation is tilting away from the US in the face of Donald Trump’s tariff threats.

In Russia, barter is back for the first time since the chaos of the 1990s as settlement problems resulting from the conflict in Ukraine have forced at least one Chinese company to seek steel and aluminium alloys in exchange for engines.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In response to a media inquiry about the recent developments in the Ukraine crisis and China's position