Some of the world leaders at the G20 summit in Hangzhou pose for a photo on Sunday. Bottom row (left to right): German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Xi Jinping, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Cenre row (left to right) Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Chadian President Idriss Deby, Senegalese President Macky Sall, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Top row (left to right): Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Spanish acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. Photo: EPA
G20 party is over, but who’s tracking if world leaders will walk the talk?
Heads of state find hands tied by domestic problems and it’s tough to track progress even when they do agree on something
Some of the world leaders at the G20 summit in Hangzhou pose for a photo on Sunday. Bottom row (left to right): German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Xi Jinping, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Cenre row (left to right) Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Chadian President Idriss Deby, Senegalese President Macky Sall, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Top row (left to right): Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Spanish acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. Photo: EPA