Tensions Rise as France, China, and Russia React to Ukraine Conflict.

France plans to issue a "stern rebuke" to China's ambassador Lu Shaye over his comments suggesting that ex-Soviet countries lack "effective status under international law". The Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have already summoned China's envoys to account for Lu's remarks. Meanwhile, Russia says it repelled an attack by naval drones on its Black Sea fleet stationed in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, and a "Ukrainian" drone has been found outside Moscow. Global military spending rose to a record last year as Russia's war in Ukraine drove the biggest annual increase in expenditure in Europe since the end of the Cold War three decades ago.