China is expected to redefine its Arctic policy – including an ambition to become a great polar power by 2030 – amid growing scrutiny from far northern countries and a possible US-Russia ...

Beijing outlined its plans to play a growing role in the far north in a 2018 white paper which described China as a "near-Arctic state". In April 2023, China and Russia signed a memorandum of ...

“Even in the current geopolitical climate, the differences between Moscow and Beijing’s approaches to the Arctic have so far proven too great to overcome, limiting China’s advances in the ...

The worst fears of Sir Keir Starmer are coming true today as China retaliated against Donald Trump by imposing its own huge ...

With Russia threatening to militarise the Arctic, and China making the most of the melting ... and cooperation between our nations, and to express hope that our relationship will ony grow stronger." ...

Trump has slapped 20% levies on all imports from China since taking office in January, faulting Beijing for not halting the flow of chemicals used to make illegal fentanyl, a leading cause of U.S ...

China’s armed forces are more ready than ever to surround the self-ruled island of Taiwan, cut it off from the world and try to squeeze it into submission. A Chinese blockade of Taiwan would be ...