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The Group of 20, or G20 as it is more commonly known, is an annual meeting of leaders from 19 major nations plus the European Union.
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Diplomacy

Opinion | The 21st-century order has outgrown 20th-century institutions

Despite international tensions, countries still seek cooperation based on shared interests. Institutions must embrace this trend.

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Britain

Japan, UK agree outer space, critical mineral supply chains collaboration

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Africa

Opinion | How China can help Africa build human capital

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Donald Trump

US wipes South Africa’s G20 website clean for 2026 Trump summit

The US presidency of the G20 begins with the first-ever exclusion of a member nation.

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US President Donald Trump. Photo: AFP
South Africa

Ramaphosa dismisses Trump’s threat to bar South Africa from 2026 G20 summit

South Africa’s president labels Donald Trump’s repeated claims about his country as ‘misinformation’.

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China-Africa relations

China set to benefit as South Africa looks to diversify away from US

As ties with Washington deteriorate, Pretoria is ‘determined to pursue economic diplomacy’ as it pursues new markets in Asia and Europe.

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Donald Trump

Trump barring South Africa from next year’s G20 summit in Miami

South Africa denounces US president’s G20 ban as punitive as relations between the two nations sour.

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A protester wears a Trump mask, as Oxfam activists demanding the taxing of the super-rich in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday, the opening day of the G20 leaders’ summit. Photo: Reuters
Diplomacy

Opinion | Why next year’s G20 could be make or break for global development

As the US prepares to chair the G20, it faces a strategic choice: engage or revert to a narrower agenda.

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China-Japan relations

Why China took Japan criticism to UN twice but did not raise it at G20

Analysts say Beijing views the UN as a platform to ‘anchor’ its position on Taiwan, particularly because it offers a wider reach.

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China-UK relations

Starmer met Premier Li Qiang at G20 in South Africa amid Beijing visit rumours

Speculation on a Beijing trip comes as Britain’s PM said he would protect UK national interests after questions about engagement with China.

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Johannesburg, South Africa on Saturday. Photo: AFP
Diplomacy

China view wins out at global summits as US stays home

Cop30 and the G20 both saw China-backed multilateralism win the day, as US boycotts further eroded Washington’s global leadership.

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Canada

Carney: global economic ‘centre of gravity’ shifting away from US

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the world can make progress on a range of issues without the US, following consensus reached at a G20 leaders’ meeting.

Japan

At G20, China pushes multilateralism, solidarity and free trade amid US boycott

Chinese Premier Li Qiang urges reform of major Western-led international organisations, says developing countries must have a greater voice.

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China-Africa relations

G20 South Africa summit opens under shadow of first US boycott

Integrity and credibility of G20 must not be allowed to be weakened, South African president tells opening session in Johannesburg.

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Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, delivers the opening speech as he chairs the G20 summit plenary session, in Johannesburg on November 22. Photo: AFP
US-China relations

Ex-Argentine leader warns against cutting China ties to improve US relations

Macri argues Argentina’s farm and commodity sales rely on China even as current president Javier Milei pursues broader deal with Washington.

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Argentina’s former president Mauricio Macri has warned the current Argentinian leadership not to cut ties with China just to curry favour with the US. Photo: AFP
United States

Outside In | Trump’s G20 boycott sums up a year of US attacks on multilateralism

Despite the duress, most countries clearly do not prefer Trumpian unilateralism. But while multilateralism is not dead, it is limping badly.

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Japan

US boycott and China-Japan rift loom large over South Africa G20 summit

Geopolitical friction threatens to derail talks in Johannesburg, with observers saying it could be hard to reach consensus on key issues.

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South Africa

White House denies reversing G20 boycott, hits out at South African leader

Cyril Ramaphosa said the US had a last-minute change of mind, but the White House had sharp words in response.

Banners displaying the faces of various G20 leaders displayed along a Johannesburg freeway. Photo: AP
South Africa

Trump administration warns South Africa not to issue G20 statement

US opposes South Africa’s G20 agenda, while Trump escalated tensions with false accusations of genocide against White Afrikaners and land grabs.

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South Africa

Huge security operation in place for Africa’s first G20 summit

South Africa’s G20 summit will see representatives of 42 countries meet in Johannesburg this weekend, but not the United States.

China-EU relations

Europe seeks common ground with Indo-Pacific nations bruised by US-China rivalry

Senior officials and diplomats from Asia, Africa and the Pacific will attend a forum in Brussels. Beijing and Washington aren’t invited.

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US tariffs and Chinese export controls have set off a global scramble for diversification. Photo: AP
China-Latin America relations

China refuses to back Brazil’s crucial rainforest fund

Beijing says wealthy countries should shoulder more responsibility as Lula prepares personal appeal to Xi at the G20 summit in South Africa.

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An angler fishes across from the Wujing Power Station in Shanghai. China won’t back Brazil’s key rainforest initiative for the time being. Photo: AFP
Climate change

Opinion | How Cop30 can advance a new template for South-South climate leadership

Proven monitoring, policy lessons and the moral weight of the Amazon venue give the Global South a rare convergence of tech capability and political urgency.

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Donald Trump

Trump says US to boycott G20 in South Africa, cites treatment of white farmers

The US president says no American officials will attend this year’s Group of 20 summit, repeating claims of abuse of Afrikaners.

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China-Latin America relations

Brazil’s Lula opens Cop30 demanding courage – and cash – to save the planet

Chinese Vice-Premier Ding urges nations to honour Paris pledges with fairness and justice, calling for global climate action.

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the Cop30 climate talks on Thursday. Photo: handout
Japan

After India, US tells Japan to stop importing Russian energy

US President Trump said that Indian Prime Minister Modi has pledged to stop buying oil from Moscow.

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A Russian-flagged crude oil tanker transits the Bosphorus in Istanbul in 2023. Photo: Reuters
SCO

India signals no oil import cut from Russia, ‘eagerly’ awaits Putin visit

‘1.4 billion Indians are eagerly waiting for you,’ India’s Narendra Modi tells Vladimir Putin during ‘excellent’ meeting on SCO sidelines.

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Diplomacy

Opinion | Indonesia’s Prabowo poised to offer world a new, pragmatic road map

Indonesia’s philosophy of ‘constructive pragmatism’, with the support of rising middle powers, offers a new model of global cooperation.

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