The Russian president says he agrees with Donald Trump's aim to slash arms expenditure by 50 percent, after peace is achieved.

Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin by phone on Monday afternoon at the Russian leader's request, according to state broadcaster CCTV. The call, made on the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine,

Photo: VCG China is committed to peaceful development. Its limited defense spending is completely out of the need of safeguarding national sovereignty, security and development interests, and the need of maintaining world peace,

Beijing said Tuesday its defence spending was "entirely necessary" after Russian President Vladimir Putin backed a suggestion that the US, Russia and China all half their defence budgets.

China and Russia “cannot be moved away” from one another, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told his counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday, in their first phone call since US President Donald Trump ...

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Security and defence analyst Michael Clarke says Moldova, Georgia and the Baltic states are most "vulnerable". "There's already a Russian-speaking breakaway region in Moldova," he says, referring to Transnistria and noting Moscow has previously stationed troops there illegally.