One Earth, One Family, One Future? The G-20 Summit as viewed on Press TV (Iran)
Yesterday, at midway through the G20 meetings in India, Iran’s Press TV hosted a discussion on the proceedings in which I participated alongside geopolitical analyst Peter Koenig based in Valencia.
This discussion took place before the announcement from New Delhi that the G20 members had reached agreement on the text of their final declaration after a compromise was found with respect to the single most contentious issue, the wording of their statement on the Russia-Ukraine War. This achievement changes considerably how the G20 will go down in history, as does another key landmark decision taken in Delhi later in its session, the admission of the African Union as a full-fledged member of the group.
The G20 opened under inauspicious circumstances, namely the decision of President Putin of Russia and Chairman Xi Jinping of China not to attend. The point of their absence was to say that the G20 has outlived its usefulness as a governing board of the global economy and its place is being assumed by the expanding BRICS. What we now see is that the G20 is being transformed under the influence of BRICS.
I intend to expand on this theme in an interview I will be giving to the WION television channel of India later this morning.
©Gilbert Doctorow, 2023