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G20 summit proved naysayers wrong – and showed Global South's potential to address world's biggest problems

Skepticism was running high ahead of the 2023 summit of the Group of 20, or G20, held in New Delhi in early September. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that they would not attend. At one moment, it was touch and go whether U.S. President Joe…

The Conversation

Putin trip to meet Xi in China confirmed for next month

October visit to China will mark Putin’s first known trip abroad after an arrest warrant was issued against him

The Independent UK

Leaders of world’s biggest polluting countries skipping UN climate summit

Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, leaders of two biggest carbon emitters, among those not attending summit in New York

The Guardian - US

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What Pentagon officials think about likely Chinese blockade of Taiwan

In a new high, China's military dispatched a total of 103 warplanes toward Taiwan within a 24-hour period between Sunday and Monday.

The Times of India

China lashes out at Germany after foreign minister calls Xi Jinping a ‘dictator’

China has lashed out at Germany after the country’s foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator”.

Evening Standard

Chaos erupts in House GOP as lawmakers fail to advance spending bill

‘I’m disappointed. I am p***ed off,’ one Republican congressman says about the failure

The Independent UK

At UN, Biden looks to send message to world leaders - and voters - about leadership under his watch

President Joe Biden will use his annual address before the U.N. General Assembly to make the case to world leaders — and the 2024 U.S. electorate — that he’s reestablished U.S. leadership on the world stage

The Independent UK

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Afternoon Update: Australia’s bushfire risk rises; China’s defence minister missing; and how to get kids cooking

Extreme fire risks and heatwave warnings as the Bureau of Meteorology confirms El Niño has arrived

The Guardian - AU

Who is China’s defense minister and why is he missing?

BEIJING: Chinese defense minister Li Shangfu has disappeared from public view, adding to speculation about potential trouble within the upper echelons of the nation’s leadership.

The Times of India

Where is Li Shangfu? China’s missing defence minister highlights Xi’s total grip on power

China’s latest missing minister underscores the move to centralised rule, and how questioning Xi’s judgement has become increasingly dangerous

The Guardian - AU

China’s foreign minister holds talks with Russia’s Lavrov in Moscow

Wang Yi and Sergey Lavrov say they share a commitment to a ‘multipolar world’ in their discussion in Moscow.

Al Jazeera

Top US and Chinese diplomats meet in Malta to smooth strained relations

‘Candid, substantive and constructive’ talks were held as a possible prelude to a Joe Biden-Xi Jinping meeting in November

The Guardian - US

‘He’s had a bad summer’: Xi faces calls to loosen grip as China’s crises mount

Floods, economic headwinds and disappearing ministers aside, experts say the Chinese leader’s iron grip on power may be his biggest problem

The Guardian - UK

South Korea's Yoon warns against Russia-North Korea military cooperation and plans to discuss at UN

South Korea’s president says the international community “will unite more tightly” to cope with deepening military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, as he pushes to raise the issue with world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly this week

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France 24

Questions swirl around Xi’s motives after a second top minister disappears in China

Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu has not been seen in public for more than two weeks. The disappearance of this top official close to President Xi Jinping comes two months after that of now-former foreign affairs minister Qin Gang, and follows the dismissal of a pair of influential military generals.…

The Independent UK

Laos deports human rights lawyer who was fleeing state pressure back to China

A human rights lawyer who was arrested in Laos has been deported back to China despite pleas from rights groups and United Nations experts for his release

Caixin Global

Shanghai Composite Index Fell 0.28% on Friday

Shenzhen Component Index closed down 0.52%

The Times of India

Mystery over China defense minister raises more questions for Xi Jinping

BEJING: A mystery surrounding the status of China’s defense minister is raising questions about turbulence within President Xi Jinping’s new line-up of loyalist leaders less than a year into his third term.

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Al Jazeera

China’s defence minister Li Shuangfu is missing: What do we know so far?

Li was last seen in Beijing at the end of August when he gave a keynote address at a forum with African countries.

The Independent UK

China welcomes Cambodian and Zambian leaders as it forges deeper ties with Global South

The leaders of China and Zambia have announced an upgrading of their ties to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, as the world’s second-largest economy forges deeper ties with the Global South

Chicago Sun-Times

False perception that ‘Biden’s too old’ is getting old

Too many Americans have come to believe Biden is in sharp mental decline. But the president is perfectly capable of thinking on his feet, based his performance at a recent press conference in Vietnam.

The Hindu

Kathmandu’s map strategy comes undone as China’s ‘wolf-diplomacy’ opens wounds

Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs had released a statement asserting that it ‘stands firm and clear on its political and administrative map’

Caixin Global

China and Venezuela Agree to Upgrade Official Status

President Xi Jinping and Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro say they will elevate their countries’ relationship to an ‘all-weather strategic partnership’

The Hindu

G20 summit a crowning moment for India; a loss for China: President of U.S.-India Strategic and Partnership Forum

India's success at G-20 Summit crowns its diplomatic success, reflects PM Modi's leadership. India's involvement of cities, communique, and focus on "One Earth, One Family, One Future" shows its rising power and diplomatic skills. China's absence created a vacuum for Biden and Modi to drive their agenda.

The Conversation

New Zealand’s strategic priority in the Indo-Pacific is not AUKUS – it's helping to defeat Russia in Ukraine

The debate in New Zealand over whether to join “pillar two” of the AUKUS security partnership threatens to overshadow a more important foreign policy challenge: how the country’s allies in the Indo-Pacific region are responding to the war in Ukraine.

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