There’s a rather strange mixture of images today with the news that Russia has killed roughly 1200 civilians in their invasion of Georgia while China opened the Beijing Olympics. Europe and the US must be watching with interest at China and Russia both flexing their respective organisational powers in two very differing ways…

The Easy Answer Is That Russia Is On Russia's Side and China is on China's Side Diplomacy sanctions or force? That is the question. Whether it is nobler to continue down the path of a diplomatic solution, impose harsh sanctions or take out the Iranian nuclear installations by force is the question being bandied about by the nations negotiating with this rogue regime. When we speak of the...

Russia and China have vetoed a Security Council resolution backing an Arab League peace plan that calls for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down.

by Yu Zhixiao, from Xinhua BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — Russia and China’s double veto of an Arab-European draft resolution on Syria Saturday was aimed at further seeking peaceful settlement of the chronic Syrian crisis and preventing possible drastic and risky solutions to it. It was the second time since last October that Russia and

China and Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution last night to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and 13 of his henchmen.

This is the part 3 in the series of reviewing the content of the recent book that I read. In the past, I have often been harsh toward the recent China/Russia military cooperation. I have frequently stated that the Russians have limited military technology that it can interest China with. I have also read many cases of bad quality and servicing & support of export Russian weapons. However, it i...

Russia and China vetoed a European-backed UN Security Council resolution that threatened sanctions against Syria if it did not halt its military crackdown against civilians.

Today, I read this article by a Russian paper regarding the military cooperation between China and Russia. I think it really does a great job of explaining why there haven't been a major deal recently and why it probably would not happen anytime soon. The important point is that this article didn't dwell on the so called pirating efforts of China against Russian hardware, so it was able ...

Zimbabwe has hailed yesterday's failure by the United Nations to agree the very limited sanctions against that had been sought by Britain and America. China and Russia used their Security Council vetoes to stop the arms embargo and travel ban...

Note regarding the crisis on the Korean peninsula: In order to stop North Korea's aggression against the South, our "friend" China needs to step in. China is the only government North Korea listens to, so the question is will China intervene? Failing that intervention, the next question has to be whether North Korea is actually acting as a proxy for China?_____________________________________...