Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent state visit to Russia should be regarded as a matter of grave concern for Washington, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told lawmakers on Thursday. Speaking at the House of Representatives’ subcommittee on defense appropriations, Austin was asked to comment on Xi’s trip to Moscow, ...
Comparing the strength of the Russian and American militaries is pointless because any serious conflict involving the world’s leading nuclear powers would “obviously” have no winner, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has said. The consequences of a nuclear war would be “monstrous” and make it “impossible to say which army ...