Today is a public holiday in South Africa – Human Rights Day. There’s a certain irony in spending the day focusing on China’s President Xi Jinping’s visit to Vladimir Putin, knee-deep in a human rights disaster.
What one makes of the Ukraine crisis increasingly maps on where one lives. This is made clear by a remarkable new set of polling data recently published by the European Council on Foreign Relations ...
Category: Summits
Japan, Indian PMs Present Unified Front to Challenge China’s Expanding Influence in Asia
While most of the world's attention was focused on Chinese President Xi Jinping's talks in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin, another critically important summit between the leaders of Japan and India also took place on Monday in New Delhi.
China Tries to Maintain Mideast Diplomatic Momentum With Summit Planned for Later This Year
China will host a summit between Iran and the Gulf Cooperation Council later this year, reports the Wall Street Journal. The summit with the six-country bloc (made up of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait) will further solidify the normalization of diplomatic ...
Chinese Foreign Ministry Releases Details of Qin Gang’s G20 Meetings With Other Foreign Ministers
While stark differences over the war in Ukraine made it impossible for G20 foreign ministers to reach a consensus at last week's meeting in New Delhi, China's Qin Gang nonetheless took advantage of the opportunity to hold a number of bilateral meetings with key counterparts.
Qin Gang to Attend G20 Forum in New Delhi, First Chinese Foreign Minister Visit to India Since 2019
The Chinese government confirmed that Foreign Minister Qin Gang will attend a G20 forum in New Delhi on Thursday at the invitation of his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar. Qin will be the first Chinese foreign minister to visit India since his ...
It’s Time to Stop Pretending the System Still Works
In hindsight, it was foolish to think that China, the U.S., India and the Europeans were somehow going to put aside their differences to make desperately-needed compromises to help the world's poorest countries restructure their debts. We should have known this ...
Analysis from Cobus van Staden
Xi Bets on Global South in Moscow
Major Powers Express Ambivalence Going Into This Weekend’s Critical G20 Debt Relief Talks in Bangalore
As major powers head into this week’s G20 talks on debt restructuring, the mood is grim. The outcome of the talks will be decisive for Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring process and will have a direct bearing on talks affecting Zambia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ecuador and ...
Sri Lanka President to Meet With Chinese Finance Minister in Bid to Unblock Debt Relief
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will meet with Chinese Finance Minister Liu Kun on Friday for what's been described as "a last-ditch effort" to get Beijing to align with Colombo's other creditors for desperately-needed debt relief. The two will ...
Xi Issues Call For Solidarity Among Developing Nations in Video Address to Latin American Leaders Summit
Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed the final day of a leaders summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, where he renewed calls for closer coordination among developing countries and improved South-South cooperation. The President's ...
Is the U.S. Comparative Advantage in Engaging with Africa Enough for U.S.-Africa Relations?
By Oyintarelado Moses The U.S. showed off its comparative advantage in engaging with Africa during the Africa and Diaspora Young Leaders Forum at last week’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. While sitting in the audience, I observed as the first African American Vice ...
China’s Long Shadow Over the U.S.-Africa Summit
The three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit wrapped up in Washington, D.C. on Thursday with a declaration by President Joe Biden that his administration is "all in" when it comes to Africa. The White House worked very ...