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Donald Trump's alarming G20 performance

| July 09, 2017

A company would have replaced a CEO with behavior as erratic as that of the president

"Confusing civility with comity is a grave mistake in human or international relations. Yes, the G20 summit did agree on a common communiqué after the leaders’ meeting. Some see this as an achievement or an indication that some normality in international relations between the US and other countries is being restored. The truth is that at no previous G20 meeting did the possibility that there would not be a common statement agreed by all participants occur to anyone."

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For Academic Citation: Summers, Lawrence.“Donald Trump's alarming G20 performance.” Financial Times, July 9, 2017.

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