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China and Africa’s ground-breaking declaration on climate change will profoundly impact China’s future international development strategy. In this blog, IDS Fellow Wei Shen highlights how and what more needs to be done to successfully implement this vision.

The US-China bilateral relationship is the most consequential one in the world, with major political, economic, and security ramifications.  The deteriorating state of their relationship is a concern, not just in Washington and Beijing, but around the world, as their ‘strategic competition’ is resulting in uncomfortable decisions for leaders everywhere. This is especially acute in the Middle East-North Africa (MENA), where US security relationships and Chinese economic relationships are increasingly at odds.

Non si può trattare di G20 senza parlare di Stati Uniti. Oltre ad essere la principale economia globale, con un pil nel 2020 di oltre 20mila miliardi di dollari e quasi 330 milioni di abitanti, gli Stati Uniti sono stati anche fra i principali promotori del Gruppo dei Venti. Fin dai primi anni Novanta, infatti, Washington aveva capitanato gli sforzi per allargare i fora di governance internazionale, superando il G7 ed includendo anche le economie emergenti di Asia ed America Latina, con attenzione anche a Cina e Russia.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has adopted various instruments in order to maintain its regional primacy in the post-Soviet space (PSS). In particular, during the 1990s, a favourable political climate contributed to Russia negotiating all the ceasefire agreements that followed the violent ethno-conflicts that erupted in several states of the post-Soviet Union era.