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So these two major summits - COP30 and the South Africa G20 have now come to an end. Much as was anticipated, neither ends in glory. First the G20 in…

Media has been filled this week with reports from two important Summits. Neither offers seemingly good news, I’m afraid. But I shall bring to you the conclusions from the summits…

With the end of this week almost upon us, we are looking at the halfway point for this year’s ‘climate summit’, COP30 at Belém in Brazil at the edge of…

The fall is rather heavy with global summits. We have just seen President Trump travel to Asia and attend various ‘bilats’, most critically with Xi Jinping of China, and as…

The announcements by President Trump before and after meeting China’s President was just so classic. Before meeting President Xi - just ninety minutes before joining him - Trump suddenly declares…

It was a little ‘head spinning’ for sure. I had in my previous Post, “Responding to and Managing ‘America First’”, focused my attention in part on the Canadian federal government’s…

It is not obvious what the responses should be. I am talking about responses to President Trump’s policymaking and his frequent and loud declarations. It is difficult because we don’t…

Back in August I penned a Substack Post in Alan’s Newsletter titled, Turning Back to Middle Powers - The Contrasting Character of Middle Powers?. It is probably worthwhile to highlight…

Well, okay, one final note as we view the UN80 anniversary, the General Assembly High-level Week, a Climate Summit, all in the rearview mirror. I guess I start with the…

This week it was all about the multilateral institutions - namely the UN - but it was also about the key multilateral proponent, or at least it was - the…