For a long time, both countries rejected the very idea of alliances as only increasing tensions in various parts of the world.

For years, Russian-Chinese naval exercises have been staged closer and closer to potential conflict zones and the training scenarios have become increasingly...

Official Russian state propaganda is wrong to suggest the country is “pivoting to the East." But Western observers are also wrong to predict the decline...

So, is Russia pivoting to China or not? This question took on ideological importance when the Kremlin stepped up its propaganda, touting China as an alternative...

A little more than 100 years ago, the assassinations carried out by a Serbian terrorist and the subsequent Austrian ultimatum to Serbia led to the...

A significant number of the economic sanctions that the United States and European Union have imposed on Russia involve not just restrictions on exports...

Turning points in history are rarely recognized as such by contemporaries. Even while following the news and sensing that something has gone wrong...

Former Chinese military attache to Russia General Van Yunhai recently remarked that the Ukrainian crisis had given Beijing at least a ten-year "strategic...

For the time being, Russian leaders have decided not to stage an overt military intervention in southern and eastern Ukraine. If the Russian military...

The Fogle case shows the CIA's newfound readiness to pay big money to obtain secrets from foreign intelligence agents.