Security and geopolitics analyst Ankit Panda also warns China and Russia could team up and use European conflicts to make a grab for the disputed territory of Taiwan. Panda said China was once home to 'just' 200 warheads back in 2019, but reports claim that number has since skyrocketed to 700.

The learnings support China's development of strategies and policies for strategic competition with the United States, the report said.

Elsewhere, Russia and Ukraine agreed to exchange more prisoners and return the bodies of 12,000 dead soldiers, Reuters reported.

Kallas accused China of enabling Russia’s war machine, saying 80% of dual-use goods used to fight Ukraine come from the world’s second-biggest economy. She noted how US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned about China’s threat to the rest of Asia,

President Donald Trump put Russian President Vladimir Putin on notice, and issued some harsh words to China and their ongoing trade negotiations during his 19th week in office.

The Republican leader of the U.S. Senate said on Monday the chamber could begin work this month on a bill imposing stiff sanctions on Russia - and secondary sanctions on countries that trade with Russia - over its war in Ukraine.

US Stock market future today saw a pullback as Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq futures dropped amid rising US-China trade tensions and escalating concerns over the Russia-Ukraine war. China responded to U.S.

Asian shares have fallen and oil prices jumped as trade tensions and the Russian-Ukraine conflict ratcheted up geopolitical uncertainty.

According to the Federation of American Scientists, the U.S. deploys 400 Minuteman III ICBMs—each carrying a single warhead—in silos located in Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota and Wyoming. The missile has an officially stated range of over 6,000 miles.

China is strongly dissatisfied and resolutely opposed to the European Union's "unreasonable" sanctions on Chinese firms, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

Liverpool is one of Britain’s leading universities and boasts many links to the UK defence establishment. In September 2024, the defence ministers of the US, Britain and Australia announced that the university was an inaugural winner of their joint Aukus Electronic Warfare Innovation Prize Challenge.