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US president pledges $500m in help for Ukraine while west prepares next phase of sanctions against Russia
Joe Biden has promised further military aid for Ukraine worth $500m (£415m) , as EU foreign ministers met in Brussels to discuss ways to accelerate the provision of ammunition.
The US president also said additional sanctions would be announced this week against Russia’s elite and companies trying to evade existing sanctions in order to “back the Russian war machine”.

As it turned out, that famous American balloon and its modern Chinese counterpart have something in common – both were purposely built for espionage. The truth of that 1947 incident was finally made ...

Beijing is trying to preserve ties with Moscow while asserting it is a neutral observer trying only to coax Russia and Ukraine into peace talks.

Officials in Beijing like to portray the conflict in Ukraine as “America’s war”, provoked by NATO expansion rather than Russian aggression, and paid for by Europe in the form of higher energy prices, ...

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken says Washington has indications that Beijing is strongly considering giving military aid to Moscow for the war in Ukraine.

Punk IPA maker says it wants to sell more of its craft beer in world’s biggest market
BrewDog has said it plans to brew in China as part of a deal with Budweiser China to expand sales in the world’s biggest market for beer.
Budweiser China would start brewing BrewDog’s Punk IPA, Hazy Jane and Elvis Juice beers by the end of March at its Putian craft brewery near the south-east coast, the companies announced on Monday.

But Beijing is still bypassing this accountability — and continuing to fleece unsuspecting U.S. investors. If the House is serious about addressing the China threat, it needs to clamp down on ...

The Biden administration's unprecedented peacetime downing of the Chinese balloon and three other objects has raised new and troubling questions about the security of American airspace, alarming ...

Xi had no reason to send an obvious and provocative espionage balloon into American airspace. Other factions within the CCP, however, did.

Visit to Taipei by Shanghai officials was arranged by mayor from opposition Kuomintang party, attracting accusations of secrecy
A Chinese government delegation has visited Taiwan for the first time since the start of the pandemic, sparking some partisan tension on the island over cross-strait interactions as Beijing reiterated its intentions to annex it.
The delegation of six officials, including the deputy head of the Shanghai office of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, Li Xiaodong, arrived in Taipei with plans to visit the Lantern festival and hold talks with local officials. They were invited by the city government, led by mayor Chiang Wan-an, of the opposition Kuomintang party (KMT).

Also, Vladimir Putin’s war narrative takes hold in Russia.