US President Barack Obama poses with Chinese President China Hu Jintaoat the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh. Photo AFP
G-20 Relaunched as World's Top Forum -- Gregor Peter Schmitz, Spiegel Online
The winner of the Pittsburgh summit is already clear -- the G-20 itself. In the future the leading industrial nations want to meet with the most important emerging economies on a regular basis. The G-8 format appears to be history.
Pittsburgh, a city built on steel production, is showing its tough side as it hosts the G-20 summit. The 4,000 police officers eye anyone walking past the city center's cordoned-off streets with distrust. Military vehicles block the city's many prominent bridges, while security forces quickly use tear gas on the handful of demonstrators who are protesting for more action on climate change and against capitalism.
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