The chasm between the Democrats and Republicans in the US is growing with the two rival camps at odds over the Biden administration’s foreign policy failings.

China’s military says it has followed and warned away a US warship that “illegally” entered Chinese waters near the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea.

Talks between US and Russian diplomats begin in Geneva on Monday after a weekslong stand-off over Russian troop deployments near its border with Ukraine, with veteran envoys on each side trying to avert a crisis.

The United States has condemned North Korea's firing of a suspected ballistic missile and urged Pyongyang to engage in talks.

The US Air Force flew a second spy aircraft over eastern Ukraine hours before the telephonic conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Joe Biden

John Bolton, the former US national security adviser (NSA) and a foreign policy hawk, says it’s the time for NATO to “stand up to Russia” amid growing tensions over Ukraine.

The US Senate voted 75 to 18 to confirm Nicholas Burns, a former US ambassador to NATO who served as Under Secretary of State between 2005 and 2008, as the next US envoy to Beijing.

The Russian leader emphasized the need for immediate talks with the West  to come up with a clear, international legal agreements that would prevent NATO’s further expansion east.

Chinese slams the US boycott of the Winter Olympics; calling it "grave distortion of the spirit of the Olympic Charter", while adding that it won’t make any difference.

The terse warning to Moscow comes on the eve of a virtual meeting between US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.