DefenceTalkWorld leaders including Barack Obama arrived in Beijing Monday for an Asia-Pacific summit hosted by China’s Xi Jinping and including Russia’s Vladimir Putin, against a backdrop of growing big-power rivalries. Obama arrives wounded by the Democrats’ defeat in the mid-term US elections and with US-Russian relations in the deep freeze, while Moscow warms to an […]https://www.defencetalk.com/rising-china-geopolitical-tensions-take-stage-at-apec-60982/

DefenceTalkChina’s authoritarian President Xi Jinping and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin share similar views on issues from human rights to Mikhail Gorbachev, in an increasingly close personal relationship that mirrors their countries’ converging interests. Putin arrives in Beijing Sunday for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit and his 10th meeting with Xi since the Chinese president […]https://www.defencetalk.com/the-dragon-and-the-bear-xi-putin-form-power-duo-at-apec-60980/