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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.
- In video-link meeting with US representative Jung Pak, Chinese envoy Liu Xiaoming says stable peninsula is in the interests of the region and the world
- But Beijing insists lack of trust between Washington and Pyongyang is the ‘crux’ of the issue and US should take responsibility
Brazil’s foreign minister called for reforms of the United Nations and other multilateral institutions while criticising their inability to prevent global conflicts.
After taking part in a Group of 20 meeting, Antony Blinken is expected to meet with Luis Inacio Lula da Silva in Brasilia and Javier Milei in Buenos Aires.
Third meeting of Economic Working Group also covered financial cooperation within the G20 framework, industrial policies and debt issues.
Global South countries will focus more on what India or China has to offer and not be fixated on the Israel-Gaza war, analysts say.
Targeting more renewable energy without limiting fossil fuel production is likely to slow the clean energy transition, a goal that many of the biggest fossil fuel producers are eyeing.
Addressing G20 leaders for the first time since the start of the war, the Russian president said Moscow had never refused peace talks with Kyiv.
The president did not travel to the last two G20 meetings, hosted by India in September and Indonesia last year, sending Sergey Lavrov, foreign minister, in his place.
The Chinese leader indicated Beijing is not preparing for an invasion of the island, a US official said after the meeting in California.
US Defence Department calls out Beijing for ‘providing material support’ to Moscow in Ukraine war and heaping military pressure on Taiwan.
In Asia, just Singapore and Hong Kong have regulated cryptocurrency markets but scandals, collapses of crypto exchanges continue to test investors’ faith.
US Commerce Department says the businesses support Russia’s military by supplying microelectronics that can be used for missile and drone guidance systems.
At the first high-level talks between China and Germany in four years, both sides agree to update a financial cooperation agreement, but trade appears sidelined.
The US ambassador to Canada says intelligence gained by the Five Eyes network led to Justin Trudeau’s linking of New Delhi to Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s assassination.
‘Political leadership must think of feeding humans first, automobiles can wait … alliance would be nothing short of a historical blunder’.
More than 500 protests were planned around the world and a turnout of more than a million people is expected during Climate Week when world leaders will meet at a United Nations gathering in New York.
Delhi can be a ‘leading voice for the Global South’ and a ‘counterweight’ to players like Russia, China and the US, analysts say, giving it ‘diplomatic heft’.
Signatories hope ambitious plans to create a modern-day Spice Route with the India-Middle East-Europe economic corridor can offer a counterbalance to lavish Chinese infrastructure spending.
