Washington pushes to strengthen language around Beijing while watering down wording on Moscow in a draft statement prepared by Canada.

China’s top diplomat didn’t name the United States directly when warning against the return of the “law of the jungle” at a news conference in Beijing, but his meaning was crystal clear.

China and Russia “cannot be moved away” from one another, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told his counterpart Vladimir Putin Monday, in their first phone call since US President Donald Trump upended American foreign policy with a sweeping pivot toward Moscow as he pushes for peace in Ukraine.

Russia's GigaChat MAX is months behind the US and Chinese models, impacting Vladimir Putin's national AI strategy.

"China is very careful. They're very cautious," Oleksandr Merezhko, head of Ukraine's Foreign Affairs Committee, told Newsweek.

Keith Kellogg warns of a growing security threat from a deepening alliance between Tehran, Moscow, Beijing and Pyongyang.

President Donald Trump’s rapprochement with Russia has some experts suggesting he might be trying to do a “reverse Nixon” and isolate Beijing by courting Moscow.

"If one side blindly exerts pressure, China will resolutely counter that," Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a briefing on the sidelines of China's annual parliamentary meeting. "No country can imagine that it can suppress China on one hand while developing good relations with China on the other hand."

In the early 2000s, Russia and China had heeded US preferences regarding the Korean Peninsula by engaging in multilateralism with the Six-Party Talks to deal

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday criticized the United States for imposing tariffs on Chinese imports and vowed to "resolutely retaliate" if Washington continues to increase pressure on Beijing.

In seeking an accord with U.S., Beijing wants to avoid becoming isolated like the Soviet Union during the Cold War.