The state visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Kyrgyzstan and his participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2026 in Bishkek marked a key stage in the transformation of Kyrgyzstan-China relations
Set mostly in a small Chinese restaurant in war-torn Iraq in 2003, the recently released Chinese film Once Upon a Time in the Middle East has become the domestic box office smash of this summer
On August 13, Russian President Vladimir Putin paid his first-ever visit to Iturup, which Japan calls Etorofu, the largest island in the southern Kuril chain where Russia operates a strategically important military base
For decades, external commentary on China's economic policy has suffered from a persistent analytical blind spot: a refusal to treat Marxist political economy as a functional, operative science of governance
