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  >>  Reuters Published: 19 Apr 2021 01:31 PM BdST Updated: 19 Apr 2021 01:31 PM BdST US and Chinese flags are seen before a meeting between senior defence officials from both countries at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, US, November 9, 2018. REUTERS China is shoring up ties with autocratic partners like Russia and Iran, as well as economically dependent regional countries, while using sanctions and threats to try to fracture the alliances the United States is building against it. ");...

How China seeks to fracture US-led clique Top Searches How China seeks to fracture US-led clique Reuters / Apr 19, 2021, 13:39 IST FacebookTwitterLinkedinEMail China has responded angrily to shows of unity by America and allies, with its diplomats dubbing Japan a "vassal" and Canadas PM Justin Trudeau a "running dog" of the United States. BEIJING: China is shoring up ties with autocratic partners like Russia and Iran, as well as economically dependent regional countries, while using sanctions ...

ChinaAnalysis: Beijing huddles with friends, seeks to fracture U.S.-led ‘clique’ Gabriel CrossleyYew Tian 5 minutes read U.S. and Chinese flags are seen before a meeting between senior defence officials from both countries at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., November 9, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas China is shoring up ties with autocratic partners like Russia and Iran, as well as economically dependent regional countries, while using sanctions and threats to try to fracture the...

Beijing huddles with friends, seeks to fracture U.S.-led ‘clique’ Photo - Reuters Reuters, Gabriel Crossley, Yew Tian Reuters, Gabriel Crossley, Yew Tian China is shoring up ties with autocratic partners like Russia and Iran, as well as economically dependent regional countries, while using sanctions and threats to try to fracture the alliances the United States is building against it. Worryingly for Beijing, diplomats and analysts say, the Biden administration has got other democracies t...

COMMENT US soldiers sit beneath an American flag, raised to commemorate the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, at Forward Operating Base Bostick in Kunar province, Afghanistan IT was a godforsaken place. One of those seemingly forgotten outposts which, if it had been in the Vietnam War, would be worthy of a scene from the movie Apocalypse Now. Clinging to a steep craggy mountainside, combat outpost Najil in the Alishang Valley in Afghanistan’s Laghman Province had frequently been attacked b...

US marines scan the northwest perimeter of the American military compound at Afghanistans Kandahar airport using sophisticated thermal imagery equipment. — AP/File The Biden administration’s surprise announcement of an unconditional troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by September 11 appears to strip the Taliban and the Afghan government of considerable leverage and could ramp up pressure on them to reach a peace deal. The Taliban and Afghan government can no longer hold the US hostage — th...

BBC News By Lyse Doucet image captionDespite the push for peace, the Afghan National Army is braced for further violence "We need to close the book on a 20-year war," is how a US official put it when he broke the news on Tuesday that the last US troops would be out of Afghanistan by 11 September. Two decades on, what does this "book" say about the country that some 10,000 US-led Nato forces will soon leave behind? Its a dramatically different country than the shattered land and pariah state of...

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Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the Foreign Office. — Photo by author Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi welcomes Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the Foreign Office on Wednesday. — Photo by author Russia’s foreign minister on Wednesday said Moscow and Islamabad would boost ties in the fight against terrorism, with Russia providing unspecified military equipment to Pakistan and the two holding more joint exercises at sea and ...

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the Foreign Office. — Photo by author Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi welcomes Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the Foreign Office on Wednesday. — Photo by author Russia’s foreign minister on Wednesday said Moscow and Islamabad would boost ties in the fight against terrorism, with Russia providing unspecified military equipment to Pakistan and the two holding more joint exercises at sea and ...