#G20: "Rivers of deathless prose." & What is to be done? John Bolton, Washington Post
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 19 September 2023
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/11/g20-meetings-pointless-leaders/
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| 0:20.5 | This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:27.2 | With the G20, I welcome John Bolton, a former ambassador to the United Nations |
| 0:33.4 | former National Security Advisor, writing most recently at the Washington Post asking, |
| 0:37.8 | what is the G20? What is it for? We know G7, and then momentarily, as John's column reminds us, |
| 0:44.4 | there was a G8. Oops. Russia is back to Moscow, and it's now a G7 again. But the G20, John, |
| 0:51.8 | a very good evening to you. Where did it come from? Why do we need it now? Good evening. |
| 0:56.7 | Good evening. Well, it's about 15 or 20 years old accounts differ. It kind of came into its own |
| 1:03.0 | in 2008 and then 2009 at the time of the great financial crisis, and it was intended to be |
| 1:10.7 | an alternative to the G7. Yet another of these groups, the seven, as you mentioned, the seven strongest |
| 1:18.1 | Western industrial democracies. So this one includes the likes of China, Russia, Brazil, |
| 1:25.8 | India, and a number of other countries, and they represent a considerable portion of the world's |
| 1:34.2 | GDP. But I think it can be fairly said that nothing has been accomplished in the course of these, |
| 1:40.7 | now, 15 years of meetings, except to provide a form for leaders to have what a diplomacy we |
| 1:48.3 | call bilateral meetings, one-on-ones, or small meetings with the heads of state of the different |
| 1:53.9 | members. You know, it's important for these people to talk to one another, but what they get out |
| 1:59.0 | of a G20 meeting is something they could have gotten in a series of one-on-one meetings |
| 2:04.6 | anywhere in the world, including this week at the United Nations in New York. |
| 2:09.2 | The big news is that the G20, as far as I can read the headlines, was what didn't happen. |
| 2:13.7 | Vladimir Putin did not show up. Xi Jinping did not show up, and there are many interpretations, |
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