Chinese warships have been circumnavigating Australia’s coastline for more than three weeks, passing within 200 miles of Sydney, and staging unprecedented live-fire drills on its doorstep with New Zealand.

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China will continue to retaliate for the United States’ “arbitrary tariffs” and accused Washington of “meeting good with evil” in a press conference Friday on the sidelines of the country’s annual parliamentary session.

No country should fantasize that it can suppress China and maintain a good relationship with China at the same time,” warned China’s foreign minister.

On the Ukraine war, China's foreign minister said “conflict has no winners, and peace has no losers”. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Industry experts say that Ukraine's critical resource deposits are undeveloped and vulnerable to the threat of Russian aggression.

"A major blunder," that's how Maine senator Angus King describes what he believes would happen if America "abandoned Ukraine."

SkyShield would help Ukraine's leadership free up resources to protect big cities such as Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia and Kryvyi Rih, and relocated Ukrainian combat aircraft can curtail Russia's use of glide bombs against Kyiv's troops, which could be "a tactical game-changer for Ukraine," according to the paper.