[T]he Global South will not be a passive recipient of economic coercion, nor will it allow its developmental trajectories to be derailed by the tariff wars and unilateral sanctions.
... Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who represents an authority that is playing a role in Trump's Gaza peace plan, has been denied a New York visa.
The Beijing summit did not produce a major agreement between the great powers on the region, but it firmly established that Middle Eastern crises are now deeply tied to the great-power dialogue.