Xi: "Nuclear weapons must not be used";
Germany blocks two Chinese foreign investment deals;
China cancels EU chief's speech in Shanghai;
Island nations want China, India to help pay for climate damage;
Chinese women lose gains: World Economic Forum
Prigozhin comes clean;
How Russians consume information;
A new tool in the fight against Russian censorship;
Bishkek: back to the future?
Afghans contemplate fighting for the enemy;
Pentagon: Russia an "acute" threat to the homeland;
Moscow's subversion imperils Moldova;
The Russian ASAT threat
These developments provide a timely reminder (after a nearly two-decade-long decline of freedom and democracy around the world) that people who live under, or are threatened by, authoritarian rule will take great risks for freedom — and that those who live in free societies may treasure their freedom more than we realized.
China and the Vatican extend secret deal;
Chinese fishing boats try to ram a U.S. Coast Guard vessel;
Samsung employees indicted for passing chip tech to China;
China and Russia advance their partnership "at all levels";
China, Russia deepen satellite navigation cooperation