25 Jul 2022
Jokowi adopts a statesman style
As G20 host, Indonesia’s president is on a drive to burnish his international credentials and win kudos at home.
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14 Jun 2022
Hyundai takes the driver’s seat in Indonesia’s EV market
With net zero emissions targets looming, Southeast Asia’s biggest car market is setting the pace on electric vehicles. -
2 Jun 2022
Economic diplomacy: New Labor ministers are facing up to old issues
Reshaping policies on the Pacific, Indonesia and domestic manufacturing is already revealing a changing of the guard. -
21 Apr 2022
Economic diplomacy: After Ukraine, the IMF ponders the future
A decoupling world will still need an old-style cooperative rescue service to repair the economic minefields. -
16 Jul 2021
The G20 “diplomacy dividend”
Civil engagement groups have a valuable commodity at their disposal: time. -
27 Nov 2020
Prospects for a G20 “pandemic treaty”
Spared the “theatre of summitry”, the next leaders of the grouping now have a chance to get on with the job. -
17 Nov 2020
The G20’s existential crisis
The group’s expanded mandate, including into women’s empowerment, puts its relevance and its values under a microscope. -
22 Apr 2020
Missing in action: The G20 in the Covid crisis
The supposed “premier forum” has by and large failed to rise to hopes of a broader mandate. -
26 Mar 2020
Economic diplomacy: Fighting global pandemics from the G20 to ASEAN
When the G2 idea still had currency, a pandemic might have seemed a potential moment for US-China cooperation -
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8 Jul 2019
What a waste: the G20 and the plastic problem
More plastic waste is choking the world’s oceans yet despite global declarations and commitments, nothing much is done. -
1 Jul 2019
Temper our optimism: the message from the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Osaka
Overshadowed by US-China tensions, the shared sense of purpose that formed the G20 has almost entirely dissipated. -
25 Jun 2019
Osaka G20: finding the right beat for hard conversation
Summits are too often harshly judged on what they deliver now rather than the agenda set for the future. -
20 Jun 2019
Economic diplomacy: G20 warms up, the China drip and open trade talks
Could Japan’s Abe Shinzo – yes, Abe Shinzo – use his personal clout to give the flatlining G20 some new direction? -
3 Dec 2018
Xi and Trump at G20: A tariff truce
The risk of damage to the global economy is just as real as last week. -
25 Oct 2018
Australian energy diplomacy
Implemented correctly, Australia could achieve some of its foreign policy goals through its energy exports. -
17 Apr 2018
Biding time: the G20 Eminent Persons Group on financial governance
The EPG says economic reforms proposed by the G20 are neither radical nor novel. -
17 Jul 2017
The G20 Hamburg riots and the German election
The G20 riots in Hamburg have raised a number of pertinent political questions about domestic security and political extremism in Germany. -
4 Nov 2016
Gloomy forecasts for economic cooperation in Moscow
The ideas that are gaining traction globally do not bode well for international economic cooperation. -
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20 Oct 2014
The WTO is in big trouble
The World Trade Organisation director Roberto Azevedo says the institution has descended into 'paralysis'. -
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