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.
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.
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.
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.