One Earth, One Family, One Future? The G-20 Summit as viewed on Press TV (Iran)

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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

https://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/126093

See translations below into French (Youri)

Une seule terre, une seule famille, un seul avenir ?

Le sommet du G-20 vu par Press TV (Iran)

Hier, à mi-parcours des réunions du G20 en Inde, la chaîne iranienne Press TV a organisé une discussion sur les délibérations, à laquelle j’ai participé aux côtés de l’analyste géopolitique Peter Koenig, basé à Valence.

Cette discussion a eu lieu avant l’annonce par New Delhi que les membres du G20 étaient parvenus à un accord sur la déclaration finale après qu’un compromis ait été trouvé sur le point le plus litigieux, la formulation de leur déclaration sur la guerre entre la Russie et l’Ukraine. Ce résultat change considérablement la façon dont le G20 entrera dans l’histoire, tout comme une autre décision clé prise à Delhi plus tard dans la session, à savoir l’admission de l’Union africaine en tant que membre à part entière du groupe.

Le G20 s’est ouvert dans des circonstances peu propices, à savoir la décision du président de la Russie Poutine et du dirigeant de la Chine Xi Jinping de ne pas y assister. Leur absence avait pour but d’affirmer que le G20 n’avait plus sa raison d’être en tant que conseil d’administration de l’économie mondiale et que sa place était occupée par les BRICS, en pleine expansion. Nous constatons aujourd’hui que le G20 est en train de se transformer sous l’influence des BRICS.

J’ai l’intention de développer ce thème dans une interview que je donnerai à la chaîne de télévision indienne WION dans le courant de la matinée.

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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.

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3 thoughts on “One Earth, One Family, One Future? The G-20 Summit as viewed on Press TV (Iran)”

  1. From the NY Times on the G20 Summit:

    … it represented much softer than usual rhetoric about Russia from Mr. Biden and other Western leaders, who have spent the better part of two years spending billions on arming Ukraine and burning untold domestic political capital building support for the war.”

    “burning untold domestic political capital building support for the war”???

    I don’t quite know what to say. The metaphor by itself is stunning and worth unfolding. But is the passage in sum a confession of dishonesty?

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    1. Wow! The text above has been removed from the article. Ukraine will now have to get used to the view from under the bus. And Biden will campaign as a peace maker, trying to steal Tucker Carlson’s thunder. Wow! And note that Zelensky has now threatened Western Europe with a campaign of terrorism by Ukrainian refugees living there:

      “Curtailing aid to Ukraine will only prolong the war, Mr Zelensky argues. And it would create risks for the West in its own backyard. There is no way of predicting how the millions of Ukrainian refugees in European countries would react to their country being abandoned. Ukrainians have generally “behaved well” and are “very grateful” to those who sheltered them. They will not forget that generosity. But it would not be a “good story” for Europe if it were to “drive these people into a corner”… from The Economist:
      https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/09/10/donald-trump-will-never-support-putin-says-volodymyr-zelensky

      Biden saw Afghanistan II coming at him like a runaway train and decided to discard the lives of several hundred thousand Ukrainians who have died for his lack of intelligence, morality, or ability to see beyond the warped views of a tiny clique of fanatics at the heart of the Democratic Party. Clinton elected Donald Trump once and her heirs will elect him again. Wow!

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