Pipeline politics prominent at SCO summit

Negotiations to build a new pipeline designed to transport annually 50 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia to China through Mongolia are expected to close soon after the three countries’ leaders met in Uzbekistan. Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh held a face-to-face meeting in Samarkand on […]

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US vows continued deployment of strategic assets after North Korea nuclear law

WASHINGTON: The United States and Southern Korea on Fri (Sep 16) denounced North Korea’s first-use nuclear doctrine unveiled this month because “escalatory and destabilising” and Washington promised to continue to deploy and exercise strategic assets to deter and respond to Pyongyang. The joint statement following a vice ministerial-level conference ofContinue Reading