Analyst James Crabtree of the Institute of Strategic Studies has been telling the BBC’s Karishma Vaswani about what would constitute success for the summit.
“This is the body that came together in 2008 and 2009, and was the focal point of getting the world out of the global financial crisis. Now we have comparably complex challenges,” he said.
“So inflation, food insecurity, the climate transition, a whole host of issues… but because the United States and China and Russia are unable to cooperate with one another, then any progress on those issues is going to be incremental at best. So you have a body that is now much less than the sum of its parts,” he said.
However, he adds that there will some success – and opportunities created – as a result of the summit.
“The fact that Xi and Biden [are meeting], or Xi to meet Australian President Albanese… these are not insignificant things. So I think the success will simply be that some of the leaders will talk to one another, and maybe there’ll be tiny bits of progress on the broader G20 agenda in areas like climate change.”
The fact that the meeting is happening at all, is another success in itself, he adds.
“When the Ukraine invasion happened, people worried that this entire G20 would collapse… that there simply wouldn’t be able to be a meeting because of the disagreements,” he said.
Source: BBC