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The ambassador has been seen variously as giving Australia a ‘shake-up’ and ‘kicking own-goals’ during his Canberra posting
If an ambassador’s job is to win friends and influence people, Shingo Yamagami has done plenty of that.
But Japan’s departing envoy to Australia has also lost friends and alienated others during his two years and four months in Australia.

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Starkly different approaches to 2,100-mile line of actual control on show as defence ministers meet in Delhi
India’s defence minister has accused China of border aggressions that have “eroded the entire basis” of their relationship, as negotiations over the line of actual control (LAC) remain deadlocked.
On Thursday, China’s defence minister, Li Shangfu, landed in Delhi for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit. It is the first visit to India by a Chinese defence minister since 2020, when 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers died in clashes along the Himalayan border in Ladakh and the two sides .

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Xi Jinping’s courting of both Moscow and Kyiv seems to be making headway – much to Washington’s chagrin
Xi Jinping’s phone call with Volodymyr Zelenskiy , but it should not have come as a surprise. Beijing is on everyone’s shortlist when it comes to prospective peacemakers in Ukraine. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, is no exception. “I know I can count on you to bring back Russia to reason and everyone back to the negotiating table,” the Chinese leader during their meeting in Beijing this month.
Though Xi replied that he would call the Ukrainian president, he was in no rush. He has no illusions about the difficulty of serving as mediator in a war where Ukraine and Russia are in diametrically opposing positions. Yet China’s recent success in bringing about the normalisation of relations between may entice him to help engineer a diplomatic solution to the biggest war fought in Europe since 1945. But what would that solution look like?