Still, Beijing welcomes engagement between Washington and Moscow to improve their relations and advance ‘political settlement’ of the crisis.

Under the proposed Russian deal, Kyiv would fully withdraw from the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions in return for a Russian pledge to freeze the front lines in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, the sources said.

Anthony Albanese has been accused of speaking out of both sides of its mouth after the Prime Minister spruiked a peacekeeping presence in Ukraine while saying nothing about how China is enabling President Vladimir Putin’s war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has issued a decree enacting a decision of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine on new personal sanctions. The restrictions target 39 Russian individuals and 55 companies from Russia,

DA WEI is Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy and a Professor in the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua University.

China lashed out at Germany on Monday, warning Berlin against "inciting confrontation and hyping up tensions" after its foreign minister said Beijing was "increasingly aggressive" in the Asia-Pacific region.

From the dawn of Ukraine's first-person-view drone industry up to a year ago, producers purchased almost all of the parts they used in assembly from Chinese firms. Today, Ukrainian companies have started mass-producing the various electronics,

Germany’s foreign minister on Sunday criticised what he called the “aggressive behaviour” of China in the Taiwan Strait ahead of a trip to Japan and Indonesia, and stressed the need to strengthen internationally binding rules.