{"id":39926,"date":"2019-06-30T03:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T03:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39926"},"modified":"2019-06-30T03:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T03:22:30","slug":"is-the-g20-a-platform-for-cooperation-or-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39926","title":{"rendered":"Is the G20 a platform for cooperation or division?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"88\">\n<p>The world&#8217;s seven biggest economies, the G7, mushroomed into the G20 in 1999 following the Asian financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The G20 summit is the world&#8217;s largest annual gathering of world leaders, second only to the United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s G20 in Japan had a different emphasis.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders focussed on cooperation among themselves to solve problems, rather than the summit&#8217;s usual themes of sustainable growth, health and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>The threat of war between the United States and Iran concentrated minds in Osaka. So did the bitter trade dispute between the world&#8217;s two largest economies: the US and China.<\/p>\n<p>The closing remarks of some leaders could signal breakthroughs in major issues.<\/p>\n<p>But in an increasingly divided world, can global powers find common ground? If so how?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Peter Dobbie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nancy Snow &#8211; professor of public diplomacy, Kyoto University of foreign studies<\/p>\n<p>Viktor Olevich &#8211; lead expert, Centre for Actual Politics<\/p>\n<p>Richard Weitz &#8211; security analyst, Wikistrat<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s seven biggest economies, the G7, mushroomed into the G20 in 1999 following the Asian financial crisis. The G20 summit is the world&#8217;s largest annual gathering of world leaders, second only to the United Nations General Assembly. This year&#8217;s G20 in Japan had a different emphasis. Leaders focussed on cooperation among themselves to solve&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}