A senior official with NATO has confirmed that the military alliance is preparing to hold next year its largest drills since the Cold War with thousands of troops in Germany, Poland and the Baltics.

The US president signed a strategic partnership deal with Vietnam on Sunday. China had already been irked.

The Chinese premier has warned against the ‘new Cold War’ at the ASEAN summit in Indonesia.

Moscow has warned that Russia will see as a 'nuclear threat' the US-made F-16 warplanes in Ukraine.

China's representative to the UN has called on NATO to put aside the Cold War mentality and stop "being a troublemaker".

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says NATO is fanning the flames of tension in the South China Sea in a fashion detrimental to Russia.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warns that the global economy is splitting into rival blocs​​​​​​​, threatening a repeat of the Cold War.