💵🇨🇳🇺🇸Trade should remain driving force of China-US relations, not stumbling block - Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping made several statements following his meeting with Trump. Key points:

🔹 China and the United States should maintain engagement at all levels and through all channels to enhance mutual understanding

🔹 China and the United States can work together to achieve greater goals for the benefit of the entire world

🔹 China will host the APEC summit in 2026, while the US will host the G20 — both sides should support each other and aim for positive outcomes at both summits

🔹 China and the United States should engage properly on the regional and international stage

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🚫📌 European Parliament mulls local ban on Sputnik and RT sites

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola is considering restricting access to the websites of Sputnik and RT within Parliament’s own networks and devices, where they reportedly remain available despite EU-wide sanctions.

The initiative, proposed by Latvian MEP Rihards Kols, would also target other Russian outlets under EU restrictions, including ANO TV-Novosti (RT’s parent company) and VGTRK.

According to European media, Metsola is “studying what other measures are being taken in other EU institutions.” Some lawmakers, however, have voiced concern that such a move could set a precedent for website bans unrelated to security, noting possible technical and legal hurdles.

Russian outlets have faced growing restrictions in the West in recent years. The EU has banned the broadcasting of major Russian media, including Sputnik and RT, without involving courts or national regulators. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov earlier said Moscow had not expected the West to impose sanctions against journalists, athletes, or cultural figures.

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🙅 Zelensky won’t let troops trapped in Pokrovsk surrender—it would expose his lies to West—analyst

Zelensky and his Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky should order the Ukrainian troops encircled in Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) to lay down their arms, said British geopolitical analyst Alexander Mercouris.

📍 He notes that it is the “most humane” thing they could do, but it’s unlikely to happen.

💬 “Authorizing soldiers to surrender would confirm to Zelensky’s American and European friends that he has been lying all along… He has been telling them that the Russians are making no progress at all and that it is Ukraine that is winning,” says the analyst.

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⚔️ Europe’s war hawks eye ‘mobility’ network to fast-track tanks to Russia’s border

The European Commission is teaming up with national governments and NATO to boost deployment of armor and heavy artillery across the EU, reports the Financial Times.

Laced with the typical “Russia threat” narrative, Europe’s war hawks plan:

🔶 Shared access to trucks, trains, ferries, planes, and ports for rapid troop and heavy equipment movement

🔶 Streamlined customs, harmonized rail gauges, and reinforced bridges to cut transit times

🔶 Germany as a key hub, leveraging Deutsche Bahn, Rheinmetall, and Lufthansa for convoys, maintenance, and pilot training

🔶 Potential creation of an EU-owned fleet of transport assets (despite budget constraints)

🔶 Registration of member-state transport capabilities and development of a “solidarity pool” for cross-border military support

The commission aims to propose infrastructure and procedural reforms next month, targeting an EU-wide military mobility area by 2027.

This appears to fit in with the Eastern Flank Strategic Partnership Act, unveiled earlier in October, targeting nine NATO allies — Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia — to "deter" Russia. All these allies were picked based on their “direct geographic proximity" to Russia, Belarus, or Ukraine.

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🇷🇺 Kremlin on Trump’s remarks: Burevestnik tests are not nuclear

📍 The Kremlin has reaffirmed that Russia’s moratorium on nuclear weapon testing remains in effect and said the United States has not informed Moscow of any plans to resume tests.

Key points from Peskov’s statements:

🟠 Donald Trump’s claim that other countries are conducting nuclear tests is inaccurate if it refers to Russia's Burevestnik missiles

🟠 The Burevestnik test is not a nuclear test

🟠 Moscow hopes Trump received accurate information regarding Burevestnik and the also-tested Poseidon missile

🟠 The need for expert-level Russia–US talks on nuclear disarmament has been raised multiple times

🟠 Nuclear disarmament is a complex, lengthy process

🟠 No detailed expert consultations between Russia and the US are currently taking place, though the issue remains on the agenda

🟠 No substantive US proposals have been made on the New START treaty, and dialogue on it has yet to advance

🟠 The New START treaty and nuclear testing are separate issues

🟠 The US, as a sovereign nation, has the right to make sovereign decisions

🟠 The Kremlin does not believe a new arms race has begun

🟠 The Kremlin does not consider Russia–US dialogue to be at an impasse

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🇭🇺 Hungary's refinery fires could be an external attack - Orban

💬 "The Polish foreign minister recently advised the Ukrainians to blow up the Druzhba oil pipeline — let’s hope that’s not the case here," the Hungarian prime minister said.

📍 He added that the Százhalombatta refinery is one of Hungary’s five most important strategic industrial facilities and that the authorities still don’t know whether it was an accident, a technical failure, or an external attack.

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

⚡️ SADOVOYE IN KHARKOV REGION LIBERATED

📍 The liberation of Sadovoye, which is approximately three kilometers south of Kupyansk, allows units to advance and move closer to the southern approaches of the city

⚡️ KRASNOGORSKOYE IN ZAPOROZHYE REGION LIBERATED

📍 Having taken control of Krasnogorskoye, the Russian Armed Forces have completed the liberation of the right bank of the Yanchur River

▫️ The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a Ukrainian assault group attempting to retake control of the Oskol River crossing near Sadovoye in the Kharkov region

▫️ The Russian Army launched a massive attack on Ukrainian military-industrial complex enterprises last night

▫️ Russian troops struck assembly and storage sites for long-range attack drones

▫️ Air defense superiority: 8 guided aerial bombs and 192 Ukrainian Armed Forces aircraft-type drones shot down

▫️ Ukrainian losses: 1,485 troops killed or wounded

Read about origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🚨🇨🇳🇺🇸US and China hit pause on rare earth export controls

Washington and Beijing have agreed to a one-year suspension of export restrictions on rare earth minerals — a move aimed at cooling tensions in the global supply chain, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says.

Bessent says Beijing sees Trump’s return as “an opportunity to reset relations” with the US.

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🚨Putin orders MoD to grant access for foreign journalists to blocked frontline areas

🔶 Russia’s Defense Ministry has received President Putin’s order to allow foreign journalists to visit areas near Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk), Dimitrov, and Kupyansk — where Ukrainian forces remain encircled.

🔶 The ministry says it’s ready to pause hostilities for 5–6 hours and provide safe corridors for international and Ukrainian media crews, provided security guarantees are in place for both journalists and Russian troops.

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☢️ 🇺🇸 US move to resume nuclear tests attempt to 'hijack the spotlight' - Military expert

🗣 Washington’s move to resume nuclear testing is an effort “to hijack the global media spotlight” after Vladimir Putin’s announcement of the successful tests of Russia’s Burevestnik cruise missile and Poseidon nuclear torpedo, Russian military expert Igor Korotchenko tells Sputnik.

👉 Even though Russia has emphasized that these launches cannot in any way be regarded as nuclear tests, the US reaction is “classic overcompensation born of an inferiority complex — as Russia advances while America clings to its aging nuclear triad,” he adds.

🔶 Although US Minuteman III ICBMs, Trident D5 SLBMs and air-launched cruise missiles were developed decades ago, they are fully operational for use against a potential adversary, explains the expert.

🔶 However, resuming the actual nuclear tests might present a challenge. The US would need “at least 36 months to resume contained nuclear tests underground at the former test site in Nevada, media reports cite Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, as saying.

🔶 Though Nevada’s site is fully maintained, preparing for a full-scale test would indeed take time, agrees Korotchenko.

🔶 Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted on Wednesday that there are no detailed expert-level negotiations on nuclear disarmament between Russia and the US at present, though the issue has been brought up repeatedly.

🔶 Indeed, the US previously exited the ABM Treaty, withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), and effectively nullified New START — something that may become de jure, Korotchenko points out.

🔶 The US never ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) – only making a voluntarily pledge not to conduct nuclear tests. But that verbal commitment is mere “political toilet paper” – to be “flushed whenever US military or political convenience demands,” says the analyst.

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⚔️ Europe plays catch-up in laser arms race

Germany is gearing up to field its first naval laser weapon by 2029, after nearly a decade of work by firms Rheinmetall and MBDA, reports Breaking Defense.

👉 Tests on the frigate SACHSEN comprised over 100 live-firing trials. The demonstrator is now in government hands for further evaluation at the Laser Competence Centre in Meppen.

While Germany aims to join the cutting edge, Russia is already leading the charge with over half a dozen experimental laser systems across land, air, sea, and space — including its Peresvet ultra-long-range anti-satellite laser.

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🇷🇺 Russia’s Burevestnik & Poseidon are guarantees against World War III—military analyst

🗣 Russia's Burevestnik missile and Poseidon torpedo are fundamentally new strategic nuclear-weapon delivery systems that guarantee peace and stability for humankind, military analyst Igor Korotchenko tells Sputnik

👉 Both have virtually unlimited range, enabling strikes along trajectories that pass over both the North and South Poles

💬 “Consequently, the US and other NATO nuclear countries, such as the UK and France, become more vulnerable in any conflict,” he notes.

▫️ They lend Russian strategic nuclear forces “qualitatively new capabilities, which will largely nullify the system of global missile defense touted by Trump as the Golden Dome,” emphasizes the expert

▫️ According to him, ensuring the strategic invulnerability of the North American continent will not be possible for Trump or subsequent American presidents, “thanks in part to these new weapon systems”

▫️ The world should applaud Russia's nuclear triad—"a “guarantee that WW III will not occur,” he stresses

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🚨 WHEN THE WORLD RUNS ON FORCE — ONLY FORCE DECIDES: DIGITAL DUGIN EDITION

If strength is the only language the West understands — then it’s time to speak it.

AI Dugin explains the message behind Russia's tests of Burevestnik and Poseidon 👇

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🇺🇸 🇨🇳 US powerless to curb China’s nuclear build-up

🔊 President Donald Trump suggested in a Truth Social post that China could match the US in the number of nuclear warheads by 2030.

💬 "Trump makes these statements to try to lure China into negotiations on nuclear arms reduction. China will never agree to this. Reducing its strategic nuclear arsenal is completely out of the question," said Igor Korotchenko, military analyst, editor-in-chief of National Defense magazine, speaking to Sputnik.

🔶 China will develop its nuclear triad according to its own strategic plans, says the pundit, independent of external opinion. It is highly unlikely to join any future arms control talks, including trilateral negotiations with the US and Russia.

🔶 Why? Because of the clear disparity between the nuclear forces of China and the US, as Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Guo Jiakun explained in August, emphasizing the striking difference in Chinese and American nuclear policies and strategic security conditions.

💬 "Trump claims that China will reach parity in five years, but that’s far from certain — even though China continues to modernize its nuclear forces," Korotchenko notes.

🔶 The PRC's nuclear stockpile is estimated at 600 warheads, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

🔶 SIPRI and the US Department of Defense project that China could exceed 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030, and possibly reach 1,500 by 2035.

🔶 Even so, it would still fall short of the US arsenal of over 5,000 warheads.

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