The US ban on Huawei is pushing it to develop alternative systems that may rival Google and Android.
Fred Weir: Are US tariffs pushing China and Russia together?
Russia has felt exiled from the West for years, barred by economic sanctions. With China now facing U.S. tariffs and Western suspicions over Huawei, the Kremlin has a potential partner for the future.
Dmitri Trenin: Russia, China are key and close partners
President Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia comes exactly 30 years after Moscow-Beijing relations were normalized after a period of discord and confrontation. This normalization has turned out to be one of the most productive foreign policy investments for both countries.
Doug Mallouk: Snub of Russia on D-Day a worrisome omission
Has the current tide of hysteria against all things Russian risen to the point that European and American policymakers are now attempting an Orwellian rewrite of the history of World War II?
William A. Nitze: Trump Administration’s Intended Withdrawal From the INF Treaty Threatens National Security
The Senate must respond to President Trump’s recklessness by asserting its constitutional prerogatives.
Andrew C. McCarthy: Steele’s Shoddy Dossier
Its claims were absurd, its evidence unconvincing — why did government officials ignore so many red flags?
Whitney Webb: Bipartisan Support for Trump’s Aggressive Iran Policy Reveals the Hollowness of Russiagate
While Russia often serves as a useful “boogeyman” for promoting militaristic policies, the odd moments when those same policies actually benefit Russia and avoid strong opposition from U.S. politicians and media provide a rare glimpse into the real motivations behind Cold War 2.0.
Ivan Kurilla: Toward the Possibility of a New U.S.-Russian “Reset”
Relations between Russia and the United States have been known to change, for the better or for the worse, within a relatively short period of time.
Tucker Carlson: What the resistance has done to our democracy
More on John Brennan, #Resistance hero.
Andrew Cockburn: On The Candidacy of Joe Biden
An ardent proponent of NATO expansion into Eastern Europe, an ill-conceived initiative that has served as an enduring provocation of Russian hostility toward the West, Biden voted enthusiastically to authorize Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq, was a major proponent of Clinton’s war in Kosovo, and pushed for military intervention in Sudan.
James Meek: The Village Life
For Pushkin, the country was both a place of tranquillity and beauty, and of boredom, though that boredom had a liberating effect, giving him the blank time his writing needed.
David Axe: Is Russia Testing Nuclear Weapons in Secret?
Most likely the answer is no. But there is a much bigger issue here that must be addressed.
Ben Norton: On Facebook’s new public policy manager for Ukraine
Facebook’s new public policy manager for Ukraine Kateryna Kruk is a former government official, diehard nationalist, and anti-Russian jingoist who volunteered with the extreme-right party Svoboda during the 2014 US-backed coup.
CNBC: Putin and Xi hail ‘unprecedented’ ties as US relations sour
Russia and China appear to be intent on strengthening their alliance.
Daniel Larison: Trump’s Venezuela Hallucination
Trump was eager to boast about Moscow’s withdrawal of its troops from Venezuela, but it turned out that he or someone else in the administration just made it up…
Paul Saunders: Leveraging Venezuela: How Russia Sees Its Interests in US Backyard
Moscow has many reasons to try to prevent the fall of the Maduro regime
Chris Hedges: Manufacturing War With Russia
We are in a new and more perilous point in a 50-year nuclear arms race
Putin not invited to 75th D-Day anniversary
For the first time since 2004 (when the 60th anniversary of D-Day was commemorated), Russian President Vladimir Putin has not been invited.
M. K. Bhadrakumar: Russia has more in common with Israel than meets the eye
The rocky partnership between Russia and Iran in the Syrian conflict is entering a turbulent period. The unprecedented US-Russia-Israel security summit due to take place in Jerusalem next month has no other explanation.
Reuters: Kremlin rejects Trump warning on Syria airstrikes
The Kremlin rebuffs criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump after he tells the Russian and Syrian government to stop “bombing the hell out of” Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province. Vanessa Johnston reports.