Australia's tie with Japan in strategic coalition "unwise": strategist
It would be "foolish" for Australia to let itself to be drawn into any kind of strategic alignment with Japan that would be directed against China, warned Hugh White, a renowned Australian strategist.
Putin declines tit-for-tat sanctions against West
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday turned down governmental proposals to impose retaliatory sanctions against the West, insisting that those hostile moves cannot hinder Eurasian integration.
U.S. implies Russia behind tapping of diplomatic talks
The United States implied on Thursday that Russia was behind a tapping and posting online of private talks between American diplomats on U.S. strategy for a political transition in Ukraine.
Experts: China interacts more with world
Topping the agenda is how to comprehensively deepen reform in the world's second largest economy.Experts say China has undergone and is still undergoing tremendous changes. And those transformations are having an increasingly significant impact on the world.
