Nov 15, 2023 01:42 am UTC| Insights & Views
U.S. President Joe Biden sits down with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Nov. 15, 2023, in the first head-to-head talks between the leaders of the worlds two biggest economies in over a year. During that time,...
Joe Biden to meet with Xi Jinping – what a good result looks like for the US president
Nov 13, 2023 12:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views
US president, Joe Biden, will meet Chinas leader, Xi Jinping, in San Francisco as part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) conference, which runs until November 17. Although no exact time has been set for...
Israel-Hamas conflict: what Gaza might look like 'the day after' the war
Nov 13, 2023 12:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Less than a week after Hamass devastating attacks on October 7, Israels intelligence ministry produced a chilling document. It advocated that Israel remove all of Gazas Palestinian population and forcibly resettle them in...
Chechnya's boss and Putin’s foot soldier: How Ramzan Kadyrov became such a feared figure in Russia
Nov 10, 2023 14:42 pm UTC| Politics
The leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, recently authorized police to shoot to kill pro-Palestinian protesters who might take to the streets of Chechnya. The orders came in the wake of an...
Nov 10, 2023 14:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views
For the past month, the worlds attention has reeled at the violence in Israel and Gaza. Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine has ground on, day by day, metre by metre. Fierce fighting has continued in the north-eastern Donetsk...
Nov 10, 2023 14:37 pm UTC| Politics
A new film series produced in China, When Marx met Confucius, was viewed more than 8 million times in the first two weeks after it was released online in October. But this is not another blockbuster drama of the sort China...
Both the US and Australia are adamant the Pacific "matters". But only one is really moving the dial
Nov 07, 2023 09:09 am UTC| Insights & Views
Just before the second summit between the US and the Pacific Islands Forum at the White House in September, the US hosts took Pacific leaders to an American football game. One, however, was conspicuously absent: Solomon...
Putin’s Russia: first arrests under new anti-LGBT laws mark new era of repression
Canada needs a national strategy for homeless refugee claimants