Day: February 15, 2022

The consequences of Beijing’s backing are already material. By some accounts , Moscow has reduced force levels on its borders with China and Mongolia to their lowest levels since 1922, enabling major troop transfers from its eastern military district to Belarus. Russia’s ambassador to Beijing has said the two countries […]

If you would like to receive Latin America Brief in your inbox every Friday, please sign up here . The highlights this week: The presidents of Argentina and Ecuador seek an economic lifeline in Beijing, Haiti is stuck between two road maps for its political future, and Costa Rica prepares […]

As the number of ‘highly mutated’ Omicron instances have been increasing in China, Beijing has recently recorded its first local Omicron case only a few weeks before the Winter Olympic Games. The afflicted individual, works and resides in Haidian, Beijing’s northwestern district, and has not shown any recent travel information […]

The Chinese administration ran into more controversy on Wednesday after it announced a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldier as a torchbearer for the Beijing Winter Olympics. The soldier picked was a part of the military command that attacked Indian soldiers in the Galwan Valley in 2020. Following the event, top […]

If you would like to receive Morning Brief in your inbox every weekday, please sign up here . Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: Beijing prepares for Winter Olympics and Xi-Putin summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits Ukraine , and the United States deploys more troops to Europe. Here […]

The U.S. outreach comes as the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, has resisted entreaties from the United States and Europe to immediately release a long-awaited report from her office on the situation in Xinjiang. The exchange reflected mounting U.S. concern about what it views […]