The G20 summit will be a resounding success for India
Less so for global co-operation
FIRST IT WAS Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, who said he would stay at home. A few days later Xi Jinping, China’s leader, decided he would also skip the trip. For a moment on September 5th it seemed as though Joe Biden, too, would have to give it a miss, before he confirmed that he would, in fact, attend the G20 leaders’ summit in Delhi on September 9th and 10th. Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister and the host of the jamboree, will have breathed a sigh of relief.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Peak summit”
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