The Latest Breaking News from Beijing

Taiwan detects 66 Chinese planes around the island in the last 24 hours – a single-day record for this year

Communique highlights concerns over Beijing’s nuclear arsenal and space capabilities

With relations between NATO on the one hand and China and Russia on the other at a low ebb, analysts believe that Beijing wanted to send the alliance a warning message with the timing of the drills.

Pacific country must ‘maintain independence’ in security partnerships, military commander warns, amid spread of deals struck with other countries

In its most serious rebuke against Beijing, NATO allies have called China a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s war against Ukraine and expressed concerns over China’s nuclear arsenal and its capabilities in space

Building bridges to Russia plays to India’s strategic interest, which is to insert itself between Beijing and Moscow, says historian Sergey Radchenko

China and Bangladesh are reaffirming their ties during a visit by Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Beijing as tensions rise in the region over territorial disputes and resources

New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and Australia are sending leaders or their deputies to the NATO summit in Washington this week as the military alliance shows growing interest beyond Europe and the Western Hemisphere

The optics are startling. Russia bombed a children’s hospital in Kyiv while Hungary’s Viktor Orban, who currently holds the Council of the European Union’s rotating presidency, wrapped up a peace tour that included stops in Moscow and Baku before Beijing. At no point during his Kremlin visit did Orban denounce…