Now for our weekly wrap up of global politics with Dr Stephen Hoadley Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Arts. 

Meeting between President Biden & President Putin yesterday.  

President Xi Jinping has asserted China's influence around the world.  

France in the news again.  

Update on the civil war in Ethiopia.

Riots in the Solomon Islands. Update. 

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