If Donald Trump was bent on ruining South Africa’s Group of 20 Summit as part of his overarching attack on the multilateral order, let it be said that he didn’t succeed — but he widened the cracks.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, beset by Trump’s false claims of White genocide in his country and a US boycott, managed to get the rest of the G-20 to agree to a declaration, despite American threats. That it endorsed all the themes his administration has spent the year attacking — global solidarity, equality, sustainability — led one national newspaper ...
