If Australia wants to wield its influence on the global stage,the PM has to be at important international events. Creating unnecessary turbulence about it makes us look small.
“This G20 summit will go down in the history books,” one official told the Bloomberg news service. “But definitely not as a shining example.”
Leaders from the world’s biggest economies have split on how to end conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine,highlighting the deep divisions at the G20 summit.
Most leaders assembled for a group photo in Rio de Janeiro,the summit host city,but nobody appeared to notice that Joe Biden was running late.
The Chinese president has acknowledged the “twists and turns” in Beijing’s relations with Australia during a meeting that sought to cement a strategic partnership rocked by trade disputes.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is warning about the loss of innocent lives and the damage to the world from growing conflicts.
One man is dead and police have blocked all access to the area where the Supreme Court,Congress and presidential palace are located.
The prime minister is seeking to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping within days to shore up a $327 billion economic relationship.
President Joe Biden ended a press conference on Sunday after two days at the G20 summit by telling reporters he had to go to bed.
While other G20 world leaders met in Indonesia,the Chinese president was busy preparing his country for “the danger of war”.
After 15 years,the best the leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies could do was produce a statement that just kept their annual gathering alive.