China says India militarising border as stand-off continues
- 06-Jul-2017
BEIJING: China said on Thursday it was absurd for India to use the excuse of Chinese road-building to cross over their border, and accused India of militarising its side of the frontier. A stand-off on a plateau next to the mountainous Indian state of Sikkim, which borders China, has ratcheted up tension between the neighbouring […]
NATO allies lock in US support for stand-off with Russia
- 09-Feb-2017
ZAGAN, POLAND/RUKLA, LITHUANIA: Immediately after Donald Trump was elected, US diplomats urged Lithuania to rush through an agreement to keep American troops on its soil, reflecting alarm that the new, Russia-friendly US president might try to stop more deployments in Europe. The agreement was signed just a few days before Trump’s inauguration, according to a document […]