Two recent ministerial-level summits of the Group of 20 nations ended without a joint statement from those assembled. For the Indian government, deeply invested in its G20 presidency as a sign of its global leadership, this might be a major problem — and one it cannot solve without being more pro-active than it is usually comfortable being.
Indonesia’s presidency of the G20 last year exceeded expectations because the hosts — with some help, reportedly, from the Indian delegation — managed to get Europe (and the rest of the West) largely on the same page as Russia (and China) with respect to
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