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Undated: The G20 (or Group of Twenty) is an international forum for the governments and central bank governors from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Spain is a permanent guest invitee. Founded in 1999 with the aim to discuss policy pertaining to the promotion of international financial stability,[3] the G20 has expanded its agenda since 2008 and heads of government or heads of state, as well as finance ministers and foreign ministers, have periodically conferred at summits ever since. It seeks to address issues that go beyond the responsibilities of any one organization.[3]
Membership of the G20 consists of 19 individual countries plus the European Union (EU).
The heads of the G20 nations met semi-annually at G20 summits between 2009 and 2010. Since the November 2011 Cannes summit, all G20 summits have been held annually.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G20
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November 30: G20: So how does the summit work?
The G20 summit of the world's most powerful leaders begins in Buenos Aires on Friday.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-46395036/g20-so-how-does-the-summit-work
November 30: The Trump Administration Debates a Cold War With China
As the White House spars with a rising China, it can look to the United States’ postwar dealings with the Soviet Union for guidance.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/11/trump-xi-meet-g20-new-cold-war/577045/
December 1: G20 agreement backs 'rules-based' order but bows to Trump on trade reforms
Agreement on a joint communique was by no means guaranteed at the beginning of the summit, when US negotiators took hardline positions, rejecting any mention of multilateralism, the “rules-based order” or the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a global safety net.
Failure to agree would have called into question the survival of the G20 as a forum for maintaining global economic stability, and could have accelerated the slide towards protectionism.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/01/g20-leaders-donald-trump-rules-based-order-wto-reform
December 1: After avoiding Vladimir Putin for most of the day at the G-20 summit of global leaders, President Donald Trump had an "informal" conversation with the Russian president, the White House said Saturday.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/01/trump-putin-had-brief-informal-conversation-g-20-argentina/2174311002/
December 3: President Donald Trump is on his own island with respect to the rest of the world on the matter of global warming, with the United States being the only country to refuse to sign on to a joint statement on climate change at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In a nonbinding communiqué released at the end of the summit, the signatories of the Paris climate agreement reaffirmed that the international accord “is irreversible” and that they are committed to its “full implementation,” promising to “continue to tackle climate change, while promoting sustainable development and economic growth.”
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/3/18123684/trump-g20-climate-change-paris-agreement
December 3: Trump leaves Argentine president alone after abrupt exit from stage at G20
After Trump exits, the words, “Get me out of here” can be heard ...
Trump returned to the stage a few minutes later with the rest of the group to pose for the photograph.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4722469/trump-leaves-stage-g20/
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December 3: President Trump had a successful trip to the G20 summit in Buenos Aires — if by successful we mean that his behavior didn’t raise the specter of imminent war or generate any other incident that cut into weekend coverage of the death of former president George H.W. Bush. In 2018, that counts as good news.
The summit organizers bragged about reaching an agreement on a joint declaration, but observers differed on whether the document just noted the status quo or actually walked back commitments leaders had made in prior years. For example, the United States succeeded in striking a reference to combating protectionism, and the document dealt with climate change by noting that “19 of the 20” participants reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris climate accord (the U.S. got its own clause reiterating that Trump intends to withdraw).
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/trump-low-profile-g20.html
December 3: The White House is hailing the Dec. 1 dinner meeting between Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping in Buenos Aires as a landmark event that signals huge changes ahead for the warring trade rivals.
However, no one can seem to say what, exactly, Trump and Xi agreed to.
Statements from each country are contradictory about fundamental issues and offer no specifics about what might happen next. Given the fact that the history of US trade negotiations with China is defined by China agreeing to radical changes and then failing to actually make those changes, the Trump team’s positive spin has been summed up by trade experts as “magical thinking.”
https://qz.com/1482634/no-one-knows-what-trump-and-xi-agreed-to-at-the-g20/
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