Putin's Olympic trip signals warmer Russia-China ties
Russia's president heads to Beijing in his first visit since the Covid pandemic.
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Russia's president heads to Beijing in his first visit since the Covid pandemic.
Russia's president heads to the Chinese capital, Beijing, in his first visit since the Covid pandemic.
Fifty years after Nixon and Mao’s historic handshake, the geopolitical world order is again being reshaped
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Mixed doubles curling opened competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Wednesday as the shadow of war in Ukraine, and the impending arrival of Russian President Vladimir Putin, loomed over an event already transformed by the coronavirus pandemic. Curling teams from Sweden and Britain clashed inside Beijing's "closed loop", where the world's athletes will compete until Feb. 20 in front of crowds made sparse by COVID-19 curbs. But the political showdown between Putin and the West over Ukraine remained the main Olympic act ahead of Friday's opening ceremony, which t...