{"id":117695,"date":"2025-09-04T07:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117695\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T07:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:37:03","slug":"who-else-was-in-daniel-andrews-group-photo-with-xi-putin-and-kim-australian-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117695\/","title":{"rendered":"Who else was in Daniel Andrews\u2019 group photo with Xi, Putin and Kim? | Australian foreign policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A number of world leaders gathered in Beijing<\/a> at a second world war commemoration parade on Wednesday, in a display designed to show off China\u2019s military strength and geopolitical might. The presence of leaders such as Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un at the event has led to some western political and economic analysts describing it as a meeting of the \u201caxis of upheaval\u201d.<\/p>\n

After the parade, Russian state agency Sputnik released a group photo, featuring some expected \u2013 and unexpected \u2013 faces<\/a>. Here\u2019s who\u2019s who.<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s who at the military parade in Beijing. Composite: Sergei Bobylev\/AP\/Guardian Design<\/p>\n

From bottom left:<\/p>\n

1: Prabowo Subianto, the president of Indonesia. Prabowo travelled to China amid fierce protests at home<\/a> over perks for lawmakers. Critics say the former general is overseeing a quiet creep of the military into civilian affairs<\/a>, echoing the country\u2019s authoritarian past.<\/p>\n

2: Vladimir Putin<\/a>, the president of the Russian Federation. Putin has hailed Russia\u2019s \u201cunprecedentedly\u201d high<\/a> level of ties with China, with booming trade between the two countries an economic lifeline for Moscow since the start of the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

3: Xi Jinping<\/a>, the president of China. Before the parade, Xi hosted dozens of leaders<\/a> at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin this week, in a push to elevate groups dominated by the global south over EU and US-led groups such as Nato.<\/p>\n

4: Peng Liyuan, the first lady of China.<\/p>\n

5: Kim Jong-un<\/a>, the supreme leader of North Korea. Kim\u2019s attendance at the military parade<\/a> is only his second reported trip abroad in six years, and the first time he has been seen with Xi and Putin at the same event.<\/p>\n

6: Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the president of Kazakhstan. In 2022 Tokayev said he had personally ordered security forces and the army to \u201copen fire with lethal force<\/a>\u201d against protesters demonstrating against corruption and inequality<\/a>.<\/p>\n

7: Zahra Pezeshkian, the Iranian president\u2019s daughter. Pezeshkian formerly worked as a chemist in the petrochemical industry and often travels with her widower father.<\/p>\n

8: Masoud Pezeshkian, the president of Iran. Elected on a comparatively moderate platform<\/a> on issues including women and minority group rights, Pezeshkian has presided over the escalation of the Iran-Israel war and increasing tensions with the US.<\/p>\n

9: Serdar Berdymukhamedov, the president of Turkmenistan. The son of former autocrat leader<\/a> Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has pledged to maintain his father\u2019s neutral status in international affairs. One of the world\u2019s most tightly controlled countries, Turkmenistan is heavily reliant on resource exports to China and Russia.<\/p>\n

10: Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan. Last month Aliyev signed a deal with Armenia at the White House to end the two countries\u2019 four-decade conflict<\/a>, which included the creation of a transit corridor named the \u201cTrump Route for International Peace and Prosperity\u201d.<\/p>\n

11: Mehriban Aliyeva, the vice-president and first lady of Azerbaijan. Western observers say the Aliyev regime has imprisoned journalists, committed human rights abuses and allowed looting of state assets by public officials<\/a>.<\/p>\n

12: Alparslan Bayraktar, the Turkish energy and natural resources minister.<\/p>\n

13: Li Junhua, the UN undersecretary general for economic and social affairs.<\/p>\n

14: Hakan Fidan, the Turkish foreign affairs minister. In a meeting with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan earlier in the week, Xi said China and Turkey should strengthen cooperation<\/a> in the area of counter-terrorism, according to Chinese state media.<\/p>\n

15: Dana N\u01cestase, the former first lady of Romania. N\u01cestase and her husband were sentenced to prison in 2014<\/a> on charges relating to blackmailing Romanian officials to receive various goods from China.<\/p>\n

16: Celso Amorim, the chief foreign policy adviser to the Brazilian president. As foreign affairs minister in Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva\u2019s first administration, Amorim pushed for a peace deal<\/a> between the US and Iran.<\/p>\n

17: Adrian N\u01cestase, the former prime minister of Romania. Despite his later imprisonment, N\u0103stase\u2019s tenure is regarded by some observers<\/a> as paving the way for Romania\u2019s entry into Nato and the EU.<\/p>\n

18: Marcos Galv\u00e3o. Brazil\u2019s ambassador to China was previously foreign affairs minister and ambassador to the EU.<\/p>\n

19: Viorica D\u01cencil\u01ce, the former prime minister of Romania. Elected in 2018, she was the first woman to hold the position.<\/p>\n

20: Haszaimi Bol Hassan, the commander of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces. The small south-east Asian country sparked an outcry when it announced in 2019 sodomy, adultery and rape would be punished with death, including by stoning<\/a>.<\/p>\n

21: Daniel Andrews, the former premier of Victoria. Andrews made headlines when he signed the state up for China\u2019s Belt and Road<\/a> development initiative in 2018 \u2013 a move that was vetoed by the then Morrison government. Andrews now runs a consulting firm and is patron of Labor Friends of Israel.<\/p>\n

22: Laureano Facundo Ortega Murillo. The son of Nicaragua\u2019s authoritarian leader, Daniel Ortega, leads his country\u2019s relations with China, Russia and Iran. Human Rights Watch has described the Ortega regime\u2019s brutal crackdown on opponents<\/a> as turning Nicaragua into \u201cthe western hemisphere\u2019s equivalent of North Korea\u201d.<\/p>\n

The full shot of the group contains even more leaders \u2013 including the former New Zealand prime ministers John Key and Helen Clark, as well as the leaders of Malaysia, Belarus, Cambodia, Cuba, Slovakia, Vietnam, Zimbabwe and several others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of world leaders gathered in Beijing at a second world war commemoration parade on Wednesday, in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-117695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}