Beijing said Tuesday its defence spending was "entirely necessary" after Russian President Vladimir Putin backed a suggestion by US counterpart Donald Trump that Russia, the United States and China ...

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Trump officials recently met with their Japanese and Dutch counterparts about restricting Tokyo Electron Ltd and ASML Holding ...

While a US-Russia-China joint summit is implausible because Washington regards Beijing as an existential economic, military ...

Australia needs to urgently invest more in naval capability. But this defence imperative clashes with fiscal challenges neither side of federal politics wants to seriously engage with.

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For many Chinese manufacturers, Trump’s return has added urgency to continuing plans to open factories or find partners in ...

Vietnam, as with many other countries, is also highly exposed to Trump’s threats of reciprocal tariffs on US trading partners. He has also threatened to levy 25 per cent tariffs on steel imports, ...

THE Trump administration took aim at China with a series of moves involving investment, trade and other issues that raises ...

China and Russia “cannot be moved away” from one another, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told his counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday, in their first phone call since US President Donald Trump upended Ame ...

Tesla billionaire’s financial entanglement in China raises the prospect that he could be the odd man out when it comes to ...

China's President Xi Jinping affirmed his "no limits" partnership in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on ...