Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed to take his country’s ties with Russia to a new level this year in a video conference with counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, hours after the inauguration of ...

As the war in Ukraine grinds toward its fourth year, US President Donald Trump has made clear which world leader he thinks ...

China's Xi Jinping has called Putin his best friend ... the Russian president brought in his large Labrador. Putin knew that Merkel was terrified of dogs — the result of a dog attack years before — ...

It’s as if the US president believes that his country should be an empire. In this Trump seems to be emulating China’s Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin of Russia, leaders he has said he admires and who ...

The two other world leaders that he seems to view as genuine peers — Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping — also see territorial expansion as a key national goal and part of their personal claim to ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday pledged to "deepen strategic coordination" in a video call less than a day after President Donald Trump re-entered the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a video call with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on January 21, 2025. Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

Besonders bei Autokraten sei dieser direkte Draht wichtig, liest Merkel. Da Putin und auch der chinesische Präsident Xi aufgrund von Corona nur per Video zugeschaltet waren, sei der ...

Ms. Merkel reveals that Vladimir Putin showed up 45 minutes late for a gathering of heads of government at a G-8 summit she was hosting in Germany because he was—he said—drinking a crate of ...

In this Trump seems to be emulating China’s Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin of Russia, leaders he has said he admires and who have themselves shown some clear imperial tendencies in recent years.