G-20 Puts on Show of Unity Amid Trump’s Assault on Global Order

  • Turkey, EU among delegates stressing need for multilateralism
  • Foreign affairs ministers met in Johannesburg this week
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With US allies and rivals alike weathering a blizzard of daily announcements, insults and edicts from President Donald Trump, the rest of the world’s biggest economies did their best this week to show they were united.

At a gathering of Group of 20 foreign ministers in Johannesburg, established industrialized nations and members of the so-called Global South stressed the need to protect multilateralism and the international institutions upon which the post World War II order was built — all of which are under assault from Trump’s administration.