Pamela K. Starr, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The admired US ambassador to Mexico is resigning, even as the two countries spat over trade, immigration and Trump’s tweets. Can this critical diplomatic relationship survive yet another problem?
Come together: South Korea’s president and first lady (front) with North Korea’s head of state and Kim Jong-un’s sister.
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Sometimes diplomacy won the day, sometimes it didn’t.
Members of a North Korean delegation cheer while holding the unified Korea flag at the pairs figure skating free program at the Pyeonchang Winter Olympics on Feb. 15, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea.
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The International Olympic Committee has banished dopers from the Winter Games. Shame it hasn’t treated North Korea, a noted human rights violator, with the same resolve.
The government should take advantage of digital technology as they will be able to extend their public diplomacy agenda in an even more interactive way.
Esther Utjiua Muinjangue commemorates the victims of the German colonial genocide in Namibia.
EPA/Stefanie Pilick
In mid-2015 the German Foreign Office after decades of denial seemingly acceded, in a very informal way, to labelling what had happened in South West Africa as genocide, is now backtracking.
US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
Reuters/Thomas Peter
China is stepping into a soft power vacuum created by the new US administration. Since Donald Trump was elected president, the country has eschewed soft power.
Britain First leader Paul Golding and deputy leader Jayda Fransen.
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South Africa will be well advised to start preparing itself for an International Monetary Fund programme as the country faces a deepening economic crisis.
Donald Trump’s and Rodrigo Duterte’s mutual admiration could bring about a thaw in U.S.-Philippine relations.
Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha
Australia is among nations calling for a 1 million square km marine park off East Antarctica. But Russia and China remain opposed, and a recent summit yet again failed to seal the deal.
Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe
has been granted immunity.
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Kim Jong-il and Bill Clinton looked to have done a deal to curb North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme for good. What went wrong?
Donald Trump’s poor popularity has affected the level of trust Australians have in the US, but not their level of faith in the alliance.
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