Did you participate in the G20 summit but lose your mind in Trump’s latest international performance? | Trump_Sina Finance_Sina.com

Original title: Participating in the G20 summit but distracted, Trump’s latest international performance?

On November 21, the annual G20 summit was held on a video connection. The two-day summit was hosted by Saudi Arabia and the leaders of the member states attended the meeting online.

How to deal with the new corona epidemic is the central theme of this summit. The United States is the epicenter of the epidemic and one of the main forces in vaccine research and development. Trump lost to Biden in the presidential election earlier this month, but still refuses to admit defeat; Washington is currently in an unstable period of transfer of power.

The comment indicated that this summit may be Trump’s last show on the international stage before leaving office.

Listening to speeches distractedly, tweeting on many occasions

Trump attended the opening ceremony of the day, but did not deliver a speech like the leaders of other Western countries. For Trump, who loves public attention, this is unusual.

According to a report by the American outlet The Hill, when Saudi King Salman delivered his opening speech, Trump appeared distracted in front of the camera. After the nine-minute keynote speech, Trump quickly updated his personal Twitter, but the content has nothing to do with the G20 summit, but rather with “electoral fraud” in the US elections.

“We will show a massive and unprecedented amount of fraud!” At 8:13 a.m., Trump tweeted in response to a joint statement made by the Michigan Senate Majority Leader and the Speaker of the House of Representatives when they visited the White House on Friday. He later updated several tweets, all related to the electoral process, including the statement that “important information about Georgia voter fraud is about to be released.”

After the opening ceremony, Trump immediately left the White House to play golf outside of Washington. A special meeting dedicated to discussing the new corona epidemic was skipped. No other US official spoke at the special meeting.

The White House issued a statement late Saturday in which it stated that the United States has mobilized all resources to develop a vaccine at record speed, and praised the United States’ economic recovery, emphasizing that “overcoming the epidemic must restore the economic and employment growth “.

According to the report, Trump also told G20 members: “It is an honor for me to work with you and I look forward to working with you for a long time.”

Nationalism is paramount, and access to vaccines should also be “America First”

Other Western leaders who attended with Trump, such as Macron and Merkel, gave speeches online. All the issues were related to the global response to the new crown.

Macron called for a coordinated global response to the epidemic and, in response to the need to achieve “universal access” to relevant health technologies to combat the epidemic, it is recommended that a related donation process be established to vaccinate priority groups. in developing countries. Merkel emphasized the importance of financing vaccines.

Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Jim O’Neill wrote on the Project Syndicate review site that the summit will witness “the biggest deal of the century.” “As long as we do not spend less than one thousandth of world GDP, the chances that the international community will save lives will increase substantially and the world economy will return to the path of growth and long-term stability.

Since vaccine production capacity is still limited, rich countries will have more resources to provide vaccines to their citizens. United Nations Secretary General Guterres issued an open letter on November 7 calling on G20 leaders to take “bolder” action in response to the epidemic, “We must avoid any form of vaccine nationalism. “.

According to the Politico report, Trump told other G20 members that he hopes the American people will be the first to get the vaccine and that the vaccine will also follow the “America first” policy.

According to the CNBC report, because Trump announced in the summer that the United States will withdraw from the WHO, he will not be able to participate in the global COVAX vaccine program led by the WHO and ACT, which is the acceleration program for the acquisition. of new crown tools.

　　The G20 summit under the new corona epidemic: can the multilateral mechanism return?

As a forum for international economic cooperation, the G20 summit is one of the most advanced mechanisms for informal dialogue between the major economies. The economies of the G20 member states are the largest and fastest growing in the world, with their total GDP accounting for about 85% of world GDP.

This year is the 15th summit. Due to the impact of the new corona epidemic, it has been put on the Internet. At least three of the leaders of the participating countries have been diagnosed with COVID-19: British Prime Minister Johnson, Brazilian President Bolsonaro and US President Trump.

Deutsche Welle reported that the impact of the new crown crisis is far-reaching, but it is difficult to give a global response. The G20 summit tried to change this situation. Currently, the G20 member states have contributed more than US $ 21 billion for the diagnosis and treatment of the new crown, and US $ 1.1 billion to protect the global economic and financial system.

According to reports from the BBC, issues such as climate change and debt restructuring were also discussed at this summit. Some poorer countries are at risk of debt default due to the impact of the epidemic. The G20 member states are reaching an agreement on the reduction and restructuring of public debt, which provides conditions for 73 countries to extend the repayment of bilateral government loans. The framework included creditor countries such as China, India and Turkey in the debt restructuring process for the first time.

The BBC commented that since the G20 Osaka Summit last year, the world structure has undergone tremendous changes. In addition to the new corona epidemic, countries are also taking in the aftershocks caused by the US elections. The visit to the White House is expected to ease the confrontation between many countries and the United States, and the international atmosphere for multilateral mechanisms is increasing. People also hope that this time the G20 summit will reflect the role of multilateral mechanisms.

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