Tag: china-russia

Taiwan Says China-Russia Partnership Timing ‘An Insult’ to Olympic Spirit

Taiwan’s government denounced the timing of the China-Russia partnership on the eve of the Beijing Winter Olympics, calling it an “insult” to the Olympic spirit that should be held “in contempt” by democratic countries, its foreign ministry said on Friday. [Reuters] Taiwan, a self-ruled island Beijing claims as its own, asserted that the Chinese Communist…


Will China Attack the United States?

Commentary On July 11, shortly after the United States added 23 Chinese entities to an economic blacklist, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) responded with an inflammatory statement. The Party, we’re told, “resolutely opposes” the “unreasonable suppression” of Chinese companies. The irony of the CCP, very much the masters of “unreasonable suppression,” releasing such a statement is as…


Sino-Russia Conference Extends Traitorous Treaties as Xi Kowtows to Putin for Better Relations

The leaders of China and Russia, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, announced an extension of the 2001 Sino‑Russian Treaty of Friendship for another five years during a virtual conference held on June 28. Prior to this meeting, the United States and Russia met for a summit in mid-June. Some commentators believe that the Chinese Communist…


Russia Plays Down Strategic Ties With CCP

News Analysis President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the Geneva summit on June 16. In response, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has issued a series of articles, stressing that China and Russia have a strong and solid relationship. Russia’s narrative, however, seems to be different from that of the CCP. It…


The Dual Faces of Sino-Russian Relations

Commentary Two recent events reveal the duality of the relationship between China and Russia. Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin witnessed the groundbreaking ceremony of the biggest nuclear energy cooperation project between the two countries via video conferencing on May 19. Putin claimed that current Sino-Russian relations are at their best, while Xi said that the two countries…


China and Russia–the New Axis Powers?

Commentary Are China and Russia conspiring powers, the way Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were conspiring together against Poland before the former invaded the latter in World War II? History Repeating Itself? Before we go further, a caveat is in order. It’s often said that history repeats itself, or at times, tends to rhyme. But…


Leaked Telegrams Show Dispute Between China and Russia Over Illegal Chinese Fishing Boat

The Epoch Times recently obtained government documents from a trusted source that revealed a conflict in 2019 between China and Russia over a Chinese fishing boat that was caught illegally fishing in Russian waters. The series of telegrams were sent from the Chinese consulate in Vladivostok, Russia, a major port city near the country’s far-eastern…


Xi and Putin Have an Unusual New Year’s Exchange That Hints at Divisions Within the CCP

Commentary According to Chinese state media reports, on the evening of Dec. 28, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone and exchanged good wishes for the New Year. Compared with the content of past New Year greetings between the Chinese and Russian leaders from 2016 to 2019, this year’s…