An agreement to keep AI out of nuclear weapons control systems will be a solid step forward, even if months of discussions are needed to agree on how it will be implemented & verified.
White House says the aim of the summit, to be held at an unannounced location in the San Francisco Bay Area, is to boost communication to prevent an intense rivalry from veering into conflict.
The Gaza war postponed the meeting between Xi Jinping and Bibi Netanyahu, but it indicates a Chinese thrust towards a bigger role in resolving the Israel-Palestine issue.
US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel’s statements suggest he seems to know something that we don’t about the military purge—US may be highly active inside China.
Experts in China have tried to avoid directly addressing Xi’s absence from the Summit. One said that the grouping was a ‘mess’ and Xi had no reason to attend the meeting in India.
If anyone had any doubts about Xi’s geopolitical monologue over the competition with India as the reason for skipping G20, an authoritative commentary ends that speculation.
Israel's response to Iran's retaliatory attack was relatively small and also downplayed by Tehran. But there are factors that could jeopardise this perceived reprieve.
The 125 APAs include 86 Unilateral APAs (UAPAs) and 39 Bilateral APAs (BAPAs). The total number of APAs since the start of the APA programme has risen to 641, with 506 UAPAs and 135 BAPAs.
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