World Dysfunction Threatens to Derail the G-20
- Argentina working to avoid third communique failure in a row
- Trump and rising China blamed for discord among leaders
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The global summit communique, with its all-night negotiations over square brackets and the placement of commas, is in danger of extinction.
For more than 40 years, so-called sherpas and their assistant “sous-sherpas” and “yaks’’ have been heaving these documents toward the pinnacles of international summits, producing blueprints for how their nations aim to work together to fix what’s broken in the world.