{"id":41288,"date":"2018-12-05T06:57:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T11:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41288"},"modified":"2018-12-05T06:57:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T11:57:50","slug":"on-the-road-to-a-post-g20-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41288","title":{"rendered":"On The Road to a Post-G20 World"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/12\/04\/on-the-road-to-a-post-g20-world\/\">On The Road to a Post-G20 World<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The trade war launched by the Trump administration against China may not have been solved by a 2\u00bd-hour dinner between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Donald Trump at the G20 in Buenos Aires on Saturday. But it may have opened a path towards a drastic realignment.<\/p>\n<p>Way beyond the histrionics surrounding the \u201cfamily pic\u201d \u2013 and whose nods and winks signaled surefire geopolitical capital \u2013 the G20 walked and talked like a last gasp to \u201csave\u201d the current turbo-capitalist world (dis)order.<\/p>\n<p>The sherpas at the G20 lost sleep for two consecutive nights trying to come up with a final declaration capable of appeasing Trump. As virtually every nation at the G20 supports multilateralism on trade, nobody wanted to upset even more the real Big Boss in Buenos Aires: Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>The climax in any case was the U.S.-China bilateral \u2013 which carried the potential, if things went downhill, to derail the global economy.<\/p>\n<p>The White House spin was on immediate negotiations \u2013 lasting 90 days \u2013 over forced transfers of U.S. technology to China; intellectual property protection; an array of non-tariff barriers; and alleged Chinese cyber \u201cintrusions\u201d. If there\u2019s no deal, Washington will raise tariffs on Chinese imports to 25 percent.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31447\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Xi-and-Trump-at-G20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31447\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Xi-and-Trump-at-G20.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Xi-and-Trump-at-G20.jpg 640w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Xi-and-Trump-at-G20-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Xi-and-Trump-at-G20-160x107.jpg 160w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xi and Trump at G20. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now compare that with the key take away from Beijing, with Wang Yi, the vastly experienced Chinese Foreign Minister, describing the dinner conversation as \u201cfriendly and candid.\u201d There were also no specifics on how substantial the allegedly \u201cimmediate\u201d Chinese buying of American agricultural, energy and industrial products will be.<\/p>\n<p>Wang, defiant, outspoken, and an expert on Japan, was promoted to state councillor last year, which means the Ministry of Foreign Affairs now has much more clout over other key Chinese institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On The Road to a Post-G20 World The trade war launched by the Trump administration against China may not have been solved by a 2\u00bd-hour dinner between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Donald Trump at the G20 in Buenos Aires on Saturday. But it may have opened a path towards a drastic realignment. Way beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[130,6963,7844,344,4076,827,6392],"class_list":["post-41288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-consortium-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-g20","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-united-states","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41289,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41288\/revisions\/41289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}