G-20 Agenda Eclipsed as Bessent Skips South Africa Meeting Again

For the second time this year, the world’s most powerful finance ministers gather in South Africa without the presence of the US Treasury Secretary.

Scott Bessent will skip the Group of 20 again this week, continuing a boycott of South Africa by top US officials begun by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who stayed away out of scorn over his hosts’ theme for its G20 presidency of “Solidarity, Equality and Sustainability.”