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G20 Summit

India must pick up pace in race for rare earths

In last month’s G20 summit at Johannesburg, Chinese Premier Li Qiang chose to connect with 19 mineral exporting countries and offered them finance and technical cooperation in mineral extraction, separation and processing.

G20 Sans America: A test case for a multipolar order

Washington’s deliberate and unprecedented boycott of the leaders’ summit created a negotiating vacuum that allowed emerging powers such as China, India, and even a constrained European Union, to exert far greater influence than usual over the outcome.

Trade or geopolitics?

Though not directly referred to in the MOU, one of IMEC‘s implicit objectives is to counter China‘s BRI, which strengthens its connectivity with countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America with an extensive network of land and sea routes.