North Korea’s unprecedented barrage of missiles is underscoring the costs of Washington’s tensions with Beijing, since China has shown little appetite for additional sanctions over the country’s nuclear program. China, along with Russia, played a critical role in approving United Nations sanctions on their neighbor after Kim Jong Un tested an atomic bomb and launched a missile designed to carry ...

Slovakia, a Nato and European Union member where polls show half of citizens believe Russia didn’t cause the war in Ukraine, is beefing up a special unit set up this year to fight hybrid threats. Now the Center for Countering Hybrid Threats at the Interior Ministry is looking to buy special AI-based analytical software to detect information operations. “It will ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz he opposed the use of nuclear force in Europe, in his most direct remarks yet on the need to keep Russia’s war in Ukraine from escalating. During the two leaders’ first in-person talks on Friday in Beijing, Xi called on the international community to “reject the threat of nuclear weapons” and ...