"They can go find another sucker," Trump said in a social media post, responding to efforts by the BRICS group of countries to build a currency alternative to the dollar

In return, Russia was helping China develop military technologies such as submarines, aeronautics missiles, a top US official said

Beijing spy chiefs have cautioned students that they could be targeted by attractive operatives working for foreign entities

The coordinated cyberattacks have been blamed on Chinese hacking groups APT 31 and APT 27 by Russian cybersecurity outfit Kaspersky

Supplies of advanced tech to Moscow, desperate to sidestep US and EU sanctions, fell this year but China, Hong Kong remain important transshipment hubs

Earlier this week a top US official called on European and NATO countries to send a collective message of concern to China

China already has ambitious plans for long-term lunar habitation, starting with plans to land its first taikonauts on the Moon to using 3D printing technology to construct buildings on its surface

Yuan trading accounted for more than 40% of all foreign currency changing hands on the Moscow Exchange in 2023, triple the year before

Together China and India accounted for around 90% of Russia’s crude exports, while Europe's share fell to only about 4-5% from about 40-45%

For November alone, bilateral trade between the two nations rose to $21.5 billion, the highest since February 2022 when the Ukraine war began

The value of bilateral trade between Russia and China surged to $21.18bn last month, its highest since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022

Analysts say BRI’s shift from investment intensive projects like dams to high-tech ones comes amid Xi's push to export Chinese ideas about governance