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"How Xi and Putin Humiliated Obama at the G-20": Anders Åslund on the G-20 summit in China

 

"On September 4-5, the G-20 held its annual summit in Hangzhou, China, President Xi Jinping’s home. G-20 summits tend to be meaningless, but this one appears to have been outright harmful. The signature event was when President Barack Obama’s Air Force One was not met with a staircase, and it went downhill from there."

 

The G-20 annual summit took place on September 4-5 in Hangzhou, China. Anders Åslund, the chairman of the CASE Advisory Council, commented on the turn of events in his new blog post

 

Read "How Xi and Putin Humiliated Obama at the G-20" here (New Atlanticist, the Atlantic Council's public policy blog).