Smile: The family photo of G20 leaders is a tradition which sees the longest-serving leaders get closer to the center, with the country hosting the summit having its head of government in the center. That put Trump second from left, beside Emmanuel Macron, the newly-elected French president and Joko Widodo, the president of Indonesia
Akio Fujii, Nikkei Asian Review: International cooperation without US has its limitations
Trump aloof at G-20 summit while free trade under threat
HAMBURG - United States President Donald Trump left midway through a Saturday morning meeting at the weekend's Group of 20 summit, leaving eldest daughter Ivanka in his stead between British Prime Minister Theresa May and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Those present must have hardly believed what they were seeing.
Trump also skipped discussions on climate change on Friday afternoon for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which lasted more than two hours. At the Hamburg summit, world leaders once again had to accommodate themselves to Trump's unconventional behavior, just as they had at the Taormina Group of Seven summit in May.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who chaired the Hamburg G-20 gathering, took great pains to reconcile two conflicting principles -- Trump's "America First" prerogatives and multilateral international cooperation - but it was the clash of these principles that overshadowed successes elsewhere at the summit.
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WNU Editor: Agreements between nation states will continue and international arrangements will be made .... as they are now. It is not the first time that the U.S. is following a vision and direction that is different from the rest of the world .... and it will not be the last.
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"Can The International Community Get Things Done Without The U.S.? "
In the U.S. we waited for Europe to take care of Yugoslavia. It was in their
G-D backyard. It is not like those JDs, public administration, and public policy 'types'were not given notice.
1st there was the Slovenian war which lasted 2 or 3 weeks.
2nd there was the Serbian-Croatian conflict which lasted a long time. Vukovar and Osijek were savaged.
So you would think the holier than thou, smarter than you crowd that loves to govern in Europe would have seen Act III coming for prepared for it.
What excuse did the eurotrash rulers have? They did not have sufficient airlift or sealift capability?
10 or 15 years later comes Libya and the Eurotrash cannot handle that by themselves either.
So Merkel and Macron can huff & puff all they want, but they are posers.
Put a little yapping chihuahua in front of Merkel and she will cower in fear.
Europe would be better off run by carpenters, plumbers and electricians.
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