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Russian leader Vladimir Putin, who is subject to an international arrest warrant over his invasion of Ukraine, skipped India’s G20 summit.

While China cannot win a battle against a US-led bloc, President Xi Jinping seems convinced that it can take its place as a great power in a fragmented global order. 

Russia is not only looking for much-needed ammunition, it is trying to counter Western influence wherever it can.

For his part, Modi has stressed the commonality of many issues facing the Global South, such as emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, rising debt, and food and energy security.

Welcoming Indonesia into the OECD will enlarge the group’s economic might and further its democratic reach into the Global South, writes John West.

You can count the number of cases in which Western governments have been genuinely interested in Africa’s wellbeing on the fingers of one hand. However, the sharp drop of Western influence on the continent is forcing former colonial powers to try rebranding themselves.

India News: The G20 summit is the first real evidence India may have the heft to get widely different governments to agree on some key issues

Oil powers Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been invited to become members of the BRICS group of developing nations in its first expansion in over a decade.

The BRICS countries are experiencing their geopolitical moment.

On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his counterpart from Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, had a wide ranging discussion about how to improve cross-border connectivity in all areas, including commerce.