·20 Nov 2025
The G-20 hasn’t even started, but has already descended into petty taunting.
This year’s host — South Africa — and next year’s host — the US — spent Thursday trading barbs over what exactly constituted participation in the conference.
But what read at times as a farcical diplomatic dispute over semantics underscored some of the deep divides plaguing this week’s meeting and threatening to undermine a preeminent global forum.
The heart of the controversy was a claim by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa that the US had reversed course…
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