Donald Trump will not attend the upcoming G20 meeting in South Africa. He is instead sending Vice President JD Vance. I will not go, said Trump on Friday. Instead, he is planning for next year – when he wants the meeting to be held at his own golf club in Miami.
World politicsNorth Korea's dictator Kim Jong-Un does not often leave his homeland. Now he is in Beijing, where he has attended this week's massive military parade and met China's president Xi Jinping.
WorldUkraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyj and the US's ditto Donald Trump will talk on the phone after the summit in Paris on Thursday.
ConflictsPutin says he is ready to meet with Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyj – if he comes to Moscow.
WorldThe teenage girl Kim Ju-Ae has accompanied dad Kim Jong-Un to Beijing – and is thus stepping out onto the world political scene. The dictator's daughter is believed to be next in line in the succession order of closed North Korea's power dynasty.
WorldRussia's offensive war in Ukraine is on the agenda when Russia's and North Korea's Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un meet one on one in Beijing. The meeting takes place after the two leaders attended a large military parade there.
ConflictsDonald Trump's trade war may have played right into China's hands. When some of the world's most autocratic leaders met in Tianjin, it was Xi Jinping's show. As a "counterweight" to the US and the West, a new world order is emerging – with China at the center and various dictatorships on the flanks. I don't think you should underestimate the danger of this, says China expert Kristina Sandklef.
WorldXi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un – side by side in public for the first time. At a military power demonstration in Beijing, a united front is to be shown in a revamped world order.
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