Favoring "deals over deterrence" will damage U.S. alliances and embolden Beijing, says Craig Singleton of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin is due to visit China this week as head of a parliamentary delegation, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified sources.

At Trump’s disposal as commander in chief is the U.S. Navy’s fleet of 68 nuclear submarines. Fourteen are Ohio class armed with 7,500 mile range Trident ballistic missiles. Four are able to carry up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles with a 1,000 mile range . Fifty are attack boats carrying torpedoes and cruise missiles.

US President Donald Trump on Friday (16 August) claimed Russia had lost India as an oil customer after Washington announced tariffs on New Delhi for its crude imports from Moscow, though he hinted he may not apply secondary tariffs on other nations still buying Russian oil, NDTV reported.

Under the proposed Russian deal, Kyiv would fully withdraw from the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions in return for a Russian pledge to freeze the front lines in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, the sources said.

China is watching as President Donald Trump pushes for a diplomatic solution to Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, Sen. Lindsey Graham told NBC's Kristen Welker in an interview that aired Sunday. The stakes?

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Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, at his meeting with US President Donald Trump on 15 August, did not oppose security guarantees for Ukraine and named China as one of the states that could provide such guarantees.