The UK has an opportunity to revolutionise the way the G20 operates as a problem-solving body.
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Russia is clearly now the junior partner in its ‘no-limits friendship’ with China.
The US president has been bitterly criticising the alliance in recent weeks over its reluctance to join the war in Iran.
The competition for Africa’s critical minerals between China and the West presents an opportunity.
China’s recent shows of strength and solidarity with Russia and North Korea have prompted speculation of a global changing of the guard.
Putin used the summit to push his own vision of Brics as a counter-point to the west, but it is a view that not all camps in the group share.
The next world war might take everyone by surprise.
America might be coming back under the new US president, Joe Biden, but this is not the same world or the same country it once was.
Some people are comparing current times with the apocalypse. In ancient texts, apocalyptic messages cultivated endurance and encouragement through dire circumstances.
In a return to realism, geopolitical headwinds challenge the US-led campaign against international corporate corruption.
The rocky relationship between Russia and the West is on a knife edge. But simple dialogue and face-to-face discussions can go a long way to easing tensions.
Despite the cataclysmic risks of the Cold War, times have never been as dangerous as these since 1945. Freedom and the rule of law are both under threat.
Donald Trump’s election represents a new political order that is the culmination of existing developments worldwide. We need to come to grips with this new era.
Despite financial crises and political differences among these five emerging economies, the BRICS coalition is here to stay. And it may just change the world.
Republicans in the US don’t have a monopoly on anti-immigrant rants. It’s bad in Europe, too.
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