First Skirmish of G-20 Sets Scene for Battle of Trade Ideas

EghtesadOnline: As global finance chiefs return from their first collective engagement with the Trump administration, they’re bringing home a load of unfinished business.

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Publish Date:20/March/2017 | 13:14

Trump's Not So Different on Trade, Canada Says on G-20 Bargain

EghtesadOnline: As Steven Mnuchin dug in, resisting the rest of the Group of 20, an ally emerged to help the U.S. Treasury Secretary dial back the bloc’s multilateral-trade pledges -- his biggest customer.

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Publish Date:19/March/2017 | 21:46

G-20 Drops Anti-Protectionist Pledge as Price of U.S. Assent

EghtesadOnline: Finance chiefs of the world’s largest economies set aside a pledge to avoid protectionism and signed up to a fudged statement on trade instead, in response to the Trump administration’s call to rethink the global order for commerce.

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Publish Date:19/March/2017 | 24:28

Tillerson Forced to Stay at Sanitarium in German Village for G-20

EghtesadOnline: On his first trip abroad as U.S. secretary of state, Rex Tillerson was forced to stay at a sanitarium in a German village known for its hot springs, 30 minutes from where other world leaders gathered. Diplomatic security agents mingled in the parking lot with elderly people in wheelchairs arriving for spa treatments.

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Publish Date:16/February/2017 | 20:34

World Leaders Search for Hotline to Trump as G-20 Ministers Meet

EghtesadOnline: Who speaks for Donald Trump on foreign affairs? Is it Secretary of State Rex Tillerson? Vice President Mike Pence? Or the president’s Twitter account?

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Publish Date:15/February/2017 | 05:13

Political Hotspots May Bubble Up on G-20 Sidelines in China

EghtesadOnline: This weekend the leaders of 20 of the world’s major economies gather in China to talk about issues ranging from the global economy to the threat of terrorism. As usual, it’s the sideline tensions that may capture attention.

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Publish Date:31/August/2016 | 09:18

Trump Pushing America First Prompts G-20 Deadlock on Free Trade

EghtesadOnline: World leaders meeting in Hamburg ran into a major rift over global economic policy as President Donald Trump held firm to his America First doctrine at the expense of unity.

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Publish Date:08/July/2017 | 04:13

Saudi King Skips G-20 and Sends Davos Regular to Meet Leaders

EghtesadOnline: The gathering of world leaders isn’t for everyone this year. Saudi King Salman is staying away from the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg and instead sent a cabinet minister who regularly attends the World Economic Forum in Davos. There was no official Saudi explanation as to why the king decided to be the only leader not to attend.

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Publish Date:06/July/2017 | 19:35

U.S. Joins 'Constructive' G-20 Climate Meeting, Germany Says

EghtesadOnline: Officials representing the world’s largest economies, including the U.S., put global climate talks back on track in Berlin Friday, after failing last week to agree on language supporting the Paris accord, the German government said.

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Publish Date:25/March/2017 | 06:15

Mnuchin at G-20 Plays Nice While Snubbing Rules of World Trade

EghtesadOnline: When U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin left the Group of 20 meetings in Germany this weekend, the worst that delegates had to say about him was that he’d been sent a little unprepared.

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Publish Date:19/March/2017 | 24:17

Economic Czars Warn G-20 of Risk From Populist Backlash on Trade

EghtesadOnline: The heads of three world economic bodies warned of the risk to trade from the protectionist headwinds sweeping many developed nations as global leaders met in Hangzhou, China.

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Publish Date:04/September/2016 | 09:26