India used the air base at Ayni in Tajikistan during a 2001 evacuation operation after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan.

China’s rulers want to show it is in their people’s interests to keep America focused on Europe, according to the EU’s foreign-policy chief

Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, the chair of Nato’s military committee, said last week that Russia and China are together trying to “reshape the rules of access and influence [in the Arctic] to their advantage, challenging openness, fairness, and the rule of law”.

China has pushed back after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Chinese support is invaluable to Russia's ability to continue its invasion—in a rare public criticism of the East Asian country.

Beijing has been expanding its arsenal, and distrust between China and the United States over nuclear weapons has deepened, with little hope of an agreement.

China and Russia have deployed attractive women to the United States to seduce unwitting Silicon Valley tech executives as part of a “sex warfare” operation aimed at stealing American technology secrets, according to a report.

The remarks came after Washington imposed new sanctions on Russia’s top oil producers, Rosneft and Lukoil, in an attempt to pressure Moscow into agreeing to a ceasefire in Ukraine, where peace talks have stalled.

U.S. allies worry that American volatility and Russian outreach and arms sales, in particular, are driving Vietnam into a new phase.