Russia, Iran and China are set to hold joint naval exercises this month in an effort to ‘deepen military mutual trust’ between the three nations. China’s defence ministry announced the news today as exercises are set to begin tomorrow. Iran’s Tasnim news agency said drills will begin tomorrow in the southeastern Iranian port of Chabahar.

US attempts to sow discord between China and Russia were "doomed to fail", Beijing said on Thursday, after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to outline Washington's strategy to dilute ties between the two nuclear-powered neighbours.

"China is very careful. They're very cautious," Oleksandr Merezhko, head of Ukraine's Foreign Affairs Committee, told Newsweek.

China pushed back against recent remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, declaring that Washington could never "sow discord" in its ties with Moscow. Newsweek reached out to the White House and the Russian Foreign Ministry via email for comment.

China's special envoy for European affairs, Lu Shaye, has said he is "appalled" by US President Donald Trump's treatment of America's European allies. He added that a peace deal for Ukraine should not be decided solely by the US and Russia.

The US president’s snub of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy points to a break with Europe and NATO’s unified stance on Russia, and the outsized influence of Vice President J.D. Vance

Ukrainians voice shock and sadness over the lack of respect shown to the leader of a nation at war, suggest ways China could help.

President Donald Trump’s rapprochement with Russia has some experts suggesting he might be trying to do a “reverse Nixon” and isolate Beijing by courting Moscow.

China and Russia “cannot be moved away” from one another, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told his counterpart Vladimir Putin Monday, in their first phone call since US President Donald Trump upended American foreign policy with a sweeping pivot toward Moscow as he pushes for peace in Ukraine.

In the early 2000s, Russia and China had heeded US preferences regarding the Korean Peninsula by engaging in multilateralism with the Six-Party Talks to deal

How is China viewing U.S. President Donald Trump’s apparent pivot to Russia? And where does that leave Beijing and Moscow’s "no-limits" alliance? TaiwanPlus speaks to Ja Ian Chong, a political scientist at the National University of Singapore.