Posts Tagged: China Russia
Russia Vetoes UN Resolution on Proclaimed Annexations, China Abstains
Russia on Friday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution introduced by the United States and Albania condemning Moscow's proclaimed annexation of parts of Ukraine, with...
Russian Forces in Ukraine Dig in After Retreat, Putin Thanks Xi
Russian forces in eastern Ukraine are fortifying defenses and it will be hard for Kyiv's troops to repeat the rapid success of their recent lightning...
America’s Afghan Pull-out Benefits China and Russia
The American exit from Afghanistan has created a power vacuum. The quartet of China, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran stands to benefit the most from the US...
US-China Relations Are in Trouble
The world has changed a great deal since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic at the end of 2019. One aspect of this change is...
How Israel Can — and Should — Deal With China
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent visit to Israel during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the public controversy surrounding Chinese involvement in Israeli companies and infrastructure,...
Will China and Russia Compete in the Middle East?
Russia’s relations with the West are at their lowest point in two decades. Similar patterns of warming and cooling have taken place intermittently ever since...
Staring Into the Abyss of US-China Decoupling
Israel knew the drill even before US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo boarded his flight to Tel Aviv in mid-May, shortly after the death of...
Pompeo’s Visit to Israel and the Chinese Connection
On May 13, 2020, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Israel for an eight-hour visit. His trip attracted a lot of attention, not...
China in the Middle East: From Observer to Security Player — and US Threat
So far, most Chinese cooperation with Middle Eastern countries has focused on energy and economic relations. But things are changing. Recent developments indicate that Beijing...
Will Internal Differences Disrupt the Russia-China Alliance Against America?
Addressing last year’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, then-US Secretary of Defense James Mattis dismissed fears first voiced in 1997 by Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s National...
Russia, China Let Syrians Bleed
When U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice responded harshly at the Security Council to the Russian and Chinese vetoes against a draft...
