Xi Jinping makes rare visit to Tibet;
China’s icebreaker fleet arrives in the Arctic;
Chinese refiners gobble up Russian oil as India cuts imports;
As Chinese financing stalls, ADB backs Pakistan rail upgrade;
Chinese “redacted” embassy plans raise concerns in London
Tracking foreign students for classroom conformity;
Russia works to divide Poland and Ukraine;
Informational blackouts across Russia;
A shameful catalog
Cairo prepares for the "day after" in Gaza;
Hezbollah's German network;
From foreign fighters to citizens?
In Russia’s view, the Western world has a big problem: It doesn’t like Russians. The reason, in the Kremlin’s telling, is not Russia’s devastation of Ukraine or its nuclear threats. Instead, the culprit is “the propaganda of Russophobia, unleashed by the West.”
Moscow drops missile ban;
Growing inroads into Africa;
Russia drills for Pacific defense;
Hybrid war, and the hijacking of a Norwegian dam