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This year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP29, has been overshadowed by Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election—an outcome that almost guarantees that Washington will back out of its international climate commitments. Election aside, an air of unease has loomed over the climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, a country that relies […]
“One of the more remarkable developments over the last 25 years is that an investment banker’s arbitrary acronym for a quartet of emerging market economies has become the rubric for rebellion,” FP’s Keith Johnson wrote ahead of the high-profile BRICS meeting in Kazan, Russia, last week. It was the first summit since the group—originally comprising […]
This year, David Miliband wrote that World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) summits “have little of the drama of peace negotiations” but that “for the poorest people in the world, the decisions made at these meetings are matters of life and death.” Miliband’s words hold true as the institutions prepare for their annual meetings […]
On Oct. 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from the top of Beijing’s Tiananmen Gate. Now, as the PRC celebrates its 75th anniversary, we wanted to revisit its past—and Chinese leaders’ efforts to rewrite it. As former Guardian China correspondent Tania Branigan put it, the Chinese Communist […]