Bloomberg China warned the US against trying to build what it called a Pacific version of Nato, while declaring that security disputes over Taiwan and Ukraine were “not comparable at all.” Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his annual news briefing Monday that the “real goal” of the US’s Indo-Pacific strategy was to form Asia’s answer to the North Atlantic Treaty ...

Bloomberg Russian forces destroyed an atomic-physics lab under international safeguards in Ukraine’s second-largest city, the head of the world’s nuclear watchdog said, underscoring growing concerns over the safety risks posed by fighting around the country’s atomic facilities. Rafael Mariano Grossi, who leads the International Atomic Energy Agency, said that a neutron generator at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology ...

  Bloomberg Prime Minister Viktor Orban signed a government decree authorizing stationing of Nato troops in Hungary. The decree, published on Monday, upholds the government’s ban on transport of lethal weapons to Ukraine via Hungary. Unlike many other east European member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Orban’s government hasn’t specifically asked for Nato troops to help defend its ...