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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.

Signal triumph

At the G20 summit, by most accounts an unqualified success for host India, the world witnessed a diplomatic tightrope act,…