The global financial system faces being split as Russia turns to China’s answer to Visa and Mastercard after the card firms pulled out of the country along with Netflix and TikTok. Lenders including Sberbank and Alfa Bank plan to move to China’s
Peter Dutton accuses Chinese telecom giant Huawei of helping Russia fend off Western cyberattacks in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine Russia has faced sustained cyber attacks since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine Chinese telco Huawei is reportedly helping Russia to keep
Defiant Ukrainian athletes top Paralympics table on first day in Beijing with THREE gold medals Ukranian athletes topped the tables with three golds at the Winter Paralympics Biathlete Grygorii Vovchynskyi claimed the first gold followed by Oksana Shyshkov, who won the women’s
The US should formally recognize Taiwan as a country to stop ‘egomaniacal’ Chinese President Xi Jinping from seizing the island after Beijing’s ‘brutally successful takeover of Hong Kong’, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said today. Pompeo, speaking during a visit to
The US Air Force flexed its military muscles at one of its airbases in Japan Tuesday, showcasing a fleet of more than two dozen warplanes in an apparent effort to deter Chinese forces from invading the self-governing island of Taiwan. The display
An unofficial US delegation to Taiwan will be left by former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen this week President Joe Biden is sending former senior defense officials to Taiwan in a show of support as the world wonders
The first rule of PPE donations is: don’t talk about PPE donations – especially if they come from China. I discovered this while enquiring about the million facemasks quietly provided to the UK Government during the pandemic by Tencent, the Chinese tech
US 'held failed secret talks' with CHINA over three months to urge Xi to stop Putin invading Ukraine
The Biden administration spent three months trying to persuade China to tell Vladimir Putin not to invade Ukraine, only to be told by Chinese officials that they were unconvinced by their intelligence and that they did not think Moscow was about to
China has thrown Russia’s Vladimir Putin another sanction-busting lifeline by lifting wheat import restrictions in an economic boost to Moscow. President Xi Jinping has backed keeping China fully open to wheat imports from Russia in spite of sweeping sanctions imposed by the West in
Aussie ski champion pulls out of world cup events and LEAVES Russia in boycott for Ukrainian invasion – sparking high praise from the PM Aerial skier Danielle Scott will leave Russia ahead of the World Cup this weekend ‘I wished so badly