Sanctions squeeze. Several large Chinese banks have stopped accepting yuan payments from Russia over the past two months due to fears of secondary U.S. sanctions, Russia’s Izvestia newspaper reported. The list of banks includes Ping An Bank, Bank of Ningbo, China Guangfa Bank, Kunshan Rural Commercial Bank, Great Wall West China Bank, Shenzhen Rural Commercial […]
Plugging the defense gap. Serbia recently acquired essential components for its 2K12 Kub air defense system from Hungary. The deal includes procurement of target...
After years of trying to stabilize its troubled real estate sector, Beijing has unexpectedly intervened to support Vanke, the country’s second-largest property developer. This...
Ceding territory. Armenia must cede four border villages to Azerbaijan in order to avoid another war, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during a...
Ousted. Niger’s ruling military junta ordered U.S. troops to leave the country with immediate effect. The United States has roughly 1,000 troops stationed at...
Though Washington is preoccupied with the war in Ukraine, strained trade relations with China and a potential regional conflict in the Middle East, U.S....
Japanese changes. Japan will relax its strict defense equipment transfer rules to allow the export of next-generation fighter jets set to be jointly developed...
Backchanneling. The U.S. reportedly held indirect talks with Iran in January on a range of issues including the Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in...
No agreement. The head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has refused to participate in a trip to Moscow following a meeting of Palestinian...
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