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Like-minded heads of state are supported by Donald Trump: Argentina’s President Javier Milei with the US President at the White House in October 2025.

Latin America

Trump’s vision to reclaim the “US backyard”

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by André de Mello e Souza
Picture of Donald Trump on a poster-covered wall in São Paulo, 2019. The fact is: Brazil has not made any major concessions to the US.

Latin America

Who bows in the face of Trump’s coercion?

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by André de Mello e Souza
Chile’s President Gabriel Boric, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Helder Barbalho, governor of the Brazilian state of Pará, at the U.N. Climate Summit in Belém, Brazil.

International cooperation

Brazil continues to campaign for climate action and cooperation

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
The climate conference in Belém is under pressure to deliver on big promises.

Climate conference

The billion-dollar gap

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by Björn Cremer
Narendra Modi, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin in September.

International relations

Why India and China are realigning their relations

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak
Indian paramilitary soldiers cordon off an area in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir after an unknown aircraft crushed near the city of Srinagar on 8 May.

Kashmir conflict

Authoritarian forces on the rise

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by Muhammad Nawfal Saleemi
The BRICS+ countries play a central role in global development. They are investing in major infrastructure projects, for example. This article is part of a focus section on development finance accompanied by a series of AI-generated images.

Multilateralism

The role of BRICS+ in development and climate finance

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by André de Mello e Souza
Combined with incentives, generosity works: Nicholas Brady and George Bush Sr. at the White House in 1990.

Excessive sovereign debt

What G7 should do in response to sovereign debt crises

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by José Siaba Serrate
José Siaba Serrate
In view of the Covid-19 pandemic, the G20 summit of 2020 adopted the Common Framework on Debt Treatment.

Restricted growth

Multilateral action on sovereign debt must speed up

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by José Siaba Serrate
José Siaba Serrate
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