Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to attend the next G20 summit in Indonesia later this year and received valuable backing from Beijing on Wednesday in a pushback to suggestions by some members that Russia could be barred from the group. Russia’s ambassador to Indonesia, which currently holds the rotating G20 ...
China has rejected claims that it is engaged in a major military buildup after a senior US commander accused the country of deploying an arsenal of weapons to several islands in the South China Sea and “destabilizing” the region. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin responded ...