BEIJING: China and Russia should jointly safeguard their security and development interests, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the visiting Russian parliament speaker on Tuesday, in their efforts to build a more “equitable” international order.
The two sides should continue their traditional friendship and deepen strategic mutual trust, state-run Xinhua news agency quoted Xi as saying.
US President Donald Trump said earlier this week that he might impose “massive” sanctions on Russia in two weeks depending on whether progress was possible in his bid to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Trump held a summit with President Vladimir Putin in Alaska earlier this month, but has been
Unable to coax him into a meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.
On Monday, Trump said China had to give the United States rare earth magnets or “we have to charge them 200 percent tariff or something.”
Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of Russia’s lower house of parliament the State Duma, arrived in China on Monday ahead of Putin’s visit to China this weekend, where he will cross paths with tens of Global South world leaders, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at a security forum.
Indian exporters are bracing for additional 25 percent US tariffs from Wednesday as punishment for New Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil.
Russia and China should “unite” the countries in the Global South, Xi told Volodin, a key domestic ally of Putin’s.
Putin will also be the principal foreign guest of honor at a military parade in Beijing next week marking the formal surrender of Japan and the end of World War Two.
Ahead of what is set to be a massive public showcase of China’s modernizing armed forces, Beijing has mounted a campaign saying China and the former Soviet Union played a pivotal role in the Asian and European theaters during World War Two.
China-Russia relations serve as a “source of stability for world peace,” said Xi.
China, Russia should safeguard security, development interests, says Xi
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China, Russia should safeguard security, development interests, says Xi
- Two sides should continue their traditional friendship and deepen strategic mutual trust
- China’s leader: Russia and China should ‘unite’ the countries in the Global South
India plans AI ‘data city’ on staggering scale
- ‘The data city is going to come in one ecosystem ... with a 100 kilometer radius’
NEW DELHI: As India races to narrow the artificial intelligence gap with the United States and China, it is planning a vast new “data city” to power digital growth on a staggering scale, the man spearheading the project says.
“The AI revolution is here, no second thoughts about it,” said Nara Lokesh, information technology minister for Andhra Pradesh state, which is positioning the city of Visakhapatnam as a cornerstone of India’s AI push.
“And as a nation ... we have taken a stand that we’ve got to embrace it,” he said ahead of an international AI summit next week in New Delhi.
Lokesh boasts the state has secured investment agreements of $175 billion involving 760 projects, including a $15 billion investment by Google for its largest AI infrastructure hub outside the United States.
And a joint venture between India’s Reliance Industries, Canada’s Brookfield and US firm Digital Realty is investing $11 billion to develop an AI data center in the same city.
Visakhapatnam — home to around two million people and popularly known as “Vizag” — is better known for its cricket ground that hosts international matches than cutting-edge technology.
But the southeastern port city is now being pitched as a landing point for submarine internet cables linking India to Singapore.
“The data city is going to come in one ecosystem ... with a 100 kilometer radius,” Lokesh said. For comparison, Taiwan is roughly 100 kilometers wide.
Lokesh said the plan goes far beyond data connectivity, adding that his state had “received close to 25 percent of all foreign direct investments” to India in 2025.
“It’s not just about the data centers,” he explained while outlining a sweeping vision of change, with Andhra Pradesh offering land at one US cent per acre for major investors.
