Moscow and Beijing Against a Turbulent World

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov has departed for Japan on an official visit. It is the first official visit by an Azerbaijani foreign minister to Japan in the past 17 years. When Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov traveled...

Every time tensions rise around the Strait of Hormuz, global markets react almost instinctively: oil prices surge, governments grow anxious and investors rush toward safe-haven assets.

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing on Tuesday evening for his first foreign trip of the year — a visit intended to demonstrate the strategic depth of the partnership between Moscow and Beijing. Yet the atmosphere surrounding the trip also revealed how dramatically the international landscape around Russia has changed.

The state visit of U.S. President Donald Trump to China concluded on Friday with a rare display of diplomatic warmth between Washington and Beijing. Yet beneath the carefully choreographed ceremony remained deep structural tensions capable of once again pushing the world’s two largest powers toward confrontation.