Beijing walks into the summit with the stronger hand while Moscow seeks reassurance that China has not drifted toward Washington after Trump's visit.

MOSCOW, May 18 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss all areas of bilateral relations with Chinese President Xi Jinping on a visit to China this week, including the proposed Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline,

T here was a telling moment on the second day of Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing. America’s president was strolling with Xi Jinping through the gardens of Zhongnanhai, the Chi

According to several people familiar with the US assessment of last week’s summit in Beijing, the Chinese president made the comments during wide-ranging talks.

Aging, allegedly ailing Vladimir Putin has been mocked over his puffy, strangely altered face after the fearful, paranoid Russian dictator made a rare public appearance in Moscow over the weekend. The swollen-cheeked 73-year-old despot was spotted at an unusually quiet Victory Day parade to mark the 81st anniversary of the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

Vladimir Putin's growing fear of assassination is said to have grown so extreme Kremlin officials believe the Russian president is now drawing his latest paranoid fears from the Richard Gere spy thriller The Double – the 2011 film featuring a Soviet assassin who murders targets using a wristwatch fitted with a hidden garrote wire.

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin heads to China summit just days after Xi and Trump meeting - The meeting comes after Russia attacked a Chinese ship headed for a Ukrainian port

TYRANT Vladimir Putin has chosen to UK as its number one enemy and is ready to attack, an exiled Russian oil tycoon has warned. Russia has ramped up its campaign of hybrid warfare and targeted