Moscow said on Friday that its forces had recaptured another village in their drive to dislodge Ukrainian forces from their last remaining footholds inside Russia's Kursk region.

Bitter territorial disputes along their lengthy shared border erupted in conflict between Soviet Russia and a young People’s Republic of China in 1969 and were only largely resolved in the 1990s.

From energy pipelines spanning permafrost and deserts, forming a "steel bond," to cross-border infrastructure enhancing connectivity as a "development fast lane," the China-Russia comprehensive ...