Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed Russian leader Vladimir Putin as a “friend” while his government moved to bolster relations with China, another sign the South Asian nation is tilting away from the US in the face of Donald Trump’s tariff threats.

Favoring "deals over deterrence" will damage U.S. alliances and embolden Beijing, says Craig Singleton of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

From US President Donald Trump brokering a meeting between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to China making overtures to India ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with President Xi Jinping,

Under the proposed Russian deal, Kyiv would fully withdraw from the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions in return for a Russian pledge to freeze the front lines in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, the sources said.

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, at his meeting with US President Donald Trump on 15 August, did not oppose security guarantees for Ukraine and named China as one of the states that could provide such guarantees.

Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice evaluated President Trump's Friday meeting with Vladimir Putin during an appearance Friday evening on MSNBC. Rice said it was a diplomatic victory for Putin to get such a "warm welcome" from Trump on U.

US President Donald Trump on Friday (16 August) claimed Russia had lost India as an oil customer after Washington announced tariffs on New Delhi for its crude imports from Moscow, though he hinted he may not apply secondary tariffs on other nations still buying Russian oil, NDTV reported.

China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin review a military honor guard during Putin’s visit to Beijing on May 16, 2024. RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS OFFICE/AFP via ...

China’s comments came a day after Vladimir Putin approved a decree lowering the threshold for nuclear strikes. At first glance, it looks as if Beijing is worried that the war in Ukraine will ...

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