60 h. ago Trump offers more US troops to Poland’s nationalist president

US President Donald Trump hosted new Polish President Karol Nawrocki on Wednesday at the White House with a military flyover and an offer to send more US troops to the eastern European ally. Talks were expected to focus on efforts to end the war in Ukraine, where Trump’s peacemaking efforts have been struggling to get traction. Trump called it a “stupid war” and said he thought ending it would have been “much easier” for him. “It’s going to get done,” he vowed to reporters in the Oval Office,...

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5 d. ago Putin arrives in China for key regional security summit amid stalled Ukraine peace talks

Putin arrives in China for key regional security summit amid stalled Ukraine peace talks  Euronews.com

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7 d. ago White House Reacts to Report of 'Chinese Peacekeepers' in Post

White House Reacts to Report of 'Chinese Peacekeepers' in Post-War Ukraine  Newsweek

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8 d. ago US unveils US$825 million arms sale to Ukraine, including long

The Trump administration has approved a US$825 million arms sale to Ukraine that will include extended-range missiles and related equipment to boost its defensive capabilities as US efforts to broker peace between Ukraine and Russia appear stalled. The US State Department announced on Thursday that it had notified Congress of the sale of air-launched cruise missiles and navigation systems for Ukraine. The sale will cover 3,350 Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM) missiles, 3,350 GPS units,...

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1 week ago China may not be waging war in Ukraine. But it still stands to win

It seems clear that US President Donald Trump achieved little more than a photo opportunity from the bilateral summit in Anchorage, Alaska, with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his subsequent meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders. Now, a ceasefire seems more out of reach than ever. For a negotiated peace agreement, Putin has insisted on his demands that Ukraine give up ambitions to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, as well as land occupied...

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1 week ago As the West cedes leverage over Ukraine, China stands to benefit

It seems clear that US President Donald Trump achieved little more than a photo opportunity from the bilateral summit in Anchorage, Alaska, with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his subsequent meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders. Now, a ceasefire seems more out of reach than ever. For a negotiated peace agreement, Putin has insisted on his demands that Ukraine give up ambitions to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, as well as land occupied...

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1 week ago Beijing expands its influence in Eurasia as Trump triggers geopolitical shifts

While United States President Donald Trump aims to end – or at least freeze – the Ukraine conflict and portray himself as a peacemaker, China seems to be quietly expanding its influence in Eurasia – a region that Halford Mackinder, “the father of geopolitics”, viewed as the key to global power. The coming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, scheduled to start on August 31 in Tianjin, is expected to provide another opportunity for Beijing to strengthen its political, economic and military...

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1 week ago Alaska summit heralds change of direction for global diplomacy

When Russian President Vladimir Putin met US President Donald Trump on August 15, in Anchorage, Alaska, the geographic significance of the event was not lost on Russian observers. Putin became the first Russian leader to visit the former colony at a time when the Arctic is a high priority in Russia’s foreign policy strategy. However, the summit itself was an anticlimax. Peace in Ukraine remained postponed; there was a meagre readout and the delegation lunch was cancelled. As Putin remarked...

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1 week ago China Denies Considering Role in Ukraine Peacekeeping Mission

China Denies Considering Role in Ukraine Peacekeeping Mission  UNITED24 Media

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1 week ago China denies reports of willingness to participate in Ukraine peacekeeping mission

China denies reports of willingness to participate in Ukraine peacekeeping mission  chinadailyasia.com

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1 week ago China ready to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine, German media reports

China ready to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine, German media reports  The Kyiv Independent

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2 w. ago Ukraine’s Zelenskyy rules out China as security guarantor in any peace deal

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy rules out China as security guarantor in any peace deal  Al Jazeera

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2 w. ago Trump and Canada PM Carney talk about trade, agree to speak again soon

US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had a “wide-ranging conversation” on Thursday that included trade and the war in Ukraine, according to Carney’s office. The two leaders talked about “trade challenges, opportunities, and shared priorities in a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the US”, according to the statement. They also discussed “how to build on the president’s leadership to support long-term peace and security for Ukraine and...

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2 w. ago ‘It’s their continent’: Vance tells Europe to take lead on Ukraine’s security

US Vice-President J.D. Vance said on Wednesday that European countries will have to take the “lion’s share” of the burden of Ukraine’s security guarantees as Washington tries to broker a peace deal between Kyiv and Russia. “I don’t think we should carry the burden here. I think that we should be helpful if it’s necessary to stop the war and to stop the killing. But I think that we should expect, and the president certainly expects, Europe to play the leading role here,” Vance told Fox News’ The...

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2 w. ago Poland calls drone crash a Russian provocation amid peace talks

Poland’s defence minister said a flying object that crashed and exploded in a cornfield in eastern Poland early on Wednesday was identified as a Russian drone, calling it a provocation by Russia. At a news conference in Warsaw, Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, who also serves as defence minister, accused Russia of provoking Nato during a crucial moment, as peace talks over the war in neighbouring Ukraine are under way, the country’s news agency PAP reported. “Russia is provoking...

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2 w. ago Trump says Putin ‘tired’ of war, but fears he doesn’t want peace

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he hoped Vladimir Putin was going to “be good” and move towards ending the war in Ukraine, but conceded it was possible the Russian president doesn’t want to make a deal. “I don’t think it’s going to be a problem, to be honest with you. I think Putin is tired of it. I think they’re all tired of it, but you never know,” Trump said in an interview with the Fox News Fox & Friends programme. Trump spoke the day after hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr...

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2 w. ago Switzerland offers Putin ‘immunity’ for Ukraine peace summit

Switzerland would grant Russian President Vladimir Putin immunity if he came to the country for talks on peace in Ukraine, despite the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant, it said on Tuesday. Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis told a press conference that, under certain circumstances, he would be allowed to set foot in Switzerland. Last year, the Swiss government defined “the rules for granting immunity to a person under an international arrest warrant. If this person comes for a...

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2 w. ago Moscow rejects deployment of troops from Nato countries in Ukraine

Russia has once again categorically rejected the deployment of troops from Nato countries in Ukraine amid US-led efforts to end the war. The United Kingdom has repeatedly suggested the possibility that foreign troops could be sent to Ukraine once a peace deal is reached. Bur Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said in Moscow that Britain was continuing to seek what she called “an escalation” in the conflict with such plans and was pushing Nato members to a dangerous limit,...

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2 w. ago Russia rejects deployment of troops from Nato countries in Ukraine

Russia has once again categorically rejected the deployment of troops from Nato countries in Ukraine amid US-led efforts to end the war. The United Kingdom has repeatedly suggested the possibility that foreign troops could be sent to Ukraine once a peace deal is reached. Bur Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said in Moscow that Britain was continuing to seek what she called “an escalation” in the conflict with such plans and was pushing Nato members to a dangerous limit,...

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2 w. ago Japan, Germany to boost security cooperation amid wars, shifting US ties

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and his German counterpart Johann Wadephul agreed on Monday to strengthen bilateral cooperation, amid the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and shifting relations with the United States. During the first “strategic dialogue” between the two nations, Iwaya and Wadephul agreed at a meeting in Tokyo to work closely towards a “just and lasting peace” in Ukraine, the Japanese foreign ministry said. The ministers also pledged to cooperate on Indo-Pacific issues,...

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