Soluble and relevant: The focus of India's G20 agenda

The government may be tempted to showcase its own achievements. But it must resist this temptation

India is due to take over the presidency of the Group of 20 (G20) nations on December 1 this year, following the Bali Summit of heads of government. The presidency comes with the requirement to host multiple meetings of working groups and task forces, and also with a certain amount of agenda-setting power. Much attention will be paid, therefore, to how the Indian government determines the issues for discussion. India will be taking over the G20 at a particularly complex geopolitical moment. To the longer-term and broad divergence between the West and China over the future of the international order