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Spy planes join B-52 bomber in exercise over Black Sea
Sep 25, 2020 (UPI)
The drill was part of NATO's summer Exercise Astral Knight 2o20. On Wednesday a B-52, one of six which traveled from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., to Britain in A...
'Enough is enough': China attacks US at Security Council
Sep 25, 2020 (AFP)
Two days after President Donald Trump used his annual address to the General Assembly to attack China's record, the US ambassador to the United Nations also too...
Russia's season of war games unites West-weary allies
Sep 24, 2020 (AFP)
The largest of these games, Caucasus-2020, kicked off in southern Russia this week and include land and naval exercises involving a total of 80,000 people inclu...
Trump lashes China as UN warns against 'Cold War'
Sep 22, 2020 (AFP)
At a General Assembly held almost entirely virtually due to Covid-19, Trump delivered a speech in election campaign mode, while Chinese President Xi Jinping ins...
India, China agree to 'stop sending more troops' to contested border
Sep 22, 2020 (AFP)
The prickly relationship between the Asian giants soured further after a brutal, high-altitude clash in the mountainous Ladakh region near the border on June 15...
Xi defends China's ambitions at UN, warns of 'clash of civilizations'
Sep 22, 2020 (AFP)
In an opening address presaged by a demand by his US counterpart Donald Trump for China to be held "accountable" for the coronavirus outbreak, Xi said global un...
World should not be dominated by China-US 'rivalry': Macron
Sep 22, 2020 (AFP)
"The world today cannot be reduced to the rivalry between China and the United States, irrespective of the global weight of these great powers," Macron told the...
Vatican, China prepare to renew historic deal to US anger
Sep 22, 2020 (AFP)
Pope Francis has been working hard to repair ties with the Communist country, but his overtures run contrary to US President Donald Trump's efforts to push a re...
NATO's Stoltenberg: Alliance must expand influence to counter China
Sep 21, 2020 (UPI)
"The rise of China is fundamentally shifting the global balance of power," Stoltenberg told the virtual conference of the Center for European Policy Analysis. "...
Finland cancels major international military exercise
Sep 21, 2020 (AFP)
Finnish military chiefs had also invited NATO and EU observers for the Arctic Lock exercise. "International exercises are important, but in this situation it is...
Chinese propaganda video shows bombers attacking what looks like Guam
Sep 21, 2020 (UPI)
The two-minute production, released on Saturday by the Chinese People's Liberation Army on social media, depicts Chinese H-6 long-range bombers traveling over t...
Trump and new Japan PM Suga discuss 'free and open Indo-Pacific': US
Sep 20, 2020 (AFP)
Beijing's expanding military presence in the region has worried several of its neighbors, and Washington has vowed to stand up against its territorial claims. C...
India digs deep to boost defences on crucial China frontier
Sep 18, 2020 (AFP)
The nuclear-armed Asian giants blame each other for a brutal high-altitude battle in June that left 20 Indian soldiers dead and an unspecified number of Chinese...
Beijing holds military exercises near Taiwan as US diplomat visits
Sep 18, 2020 (AFP)
Relations between the United States and China are at their lowest point in decades, with the two sides clashing over a range of trade, military and security iss...
Japanese lawmakers call for protection of contested islands
Sep 18, 2020 (UPI)
About 100 members of the governing Liberal Democratic Party drafted a proposal on Thursday seeking United States involvement in asserting Japan's claim over the...
NATO concludes defense chiefs' conference with praise for military plans
Sep 18, 2020 (UPI)
The NATO Military Committee Conference of 2020 ended with praise for the "Deterrence and Defense of the Euro-Atlantic Area," which reinforces the Readiness Acti...
EU chief gives first 'State of the Union' speech
Sep 16, 2020 (AFP)
The president of the European Commission, Brussels' top official and a former minister in German conservative Angela Merkel's government, will debate her progra...
Air Force to lead Astral Knight 2020 exercise in Poland
Sep 15, 2020 (UPI)
According to the Air Force, Astral Knight 2020 is designed as an integrated air and missile defense exercise that involves a combination of flight operations an...
WTO 'completely inadequate' on China trade violations: US
Sep 15, 2020 (AFP)
"The United States must be allowed to defend itself against unfair trade practices, and the Trump administration will not let China use the WTO to take advantag...
Chinese investment in Australia plunges as tensions mount
Sep 14, 2020 (AFP)
Researchers from the Australian National University said Chinese investment Down Under plunged from Aus$4.8 billion (US$3.5 billion) to just Aus$2.5 billion las...
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