A delighted Donald Trump, since the G7 summit in Biarritz, in August 2019, had announced that he would host the next meeting of the Seven in his golf club in Doral, near Miami.
Backtrack a few weeks later in the face of the outcry against this manifest conflict of interest.
The billionaire of the White House nonetheless chaired the group of seven great powers throughout 2020 (*).
Except that between the Covid-19 pandemic and the allergy of the
“king of the deal”
to multilateralism, no summit of heads of state, even virtual, has been organized by this American presidency.
A first since the Giscardian summit of Rambouillet in 1975 and the 44 consecutive.
During this same funny year, the circle widened to the great emerging powers, the G20 (**), was chaired by Saudi Arabia.
A crisis video summit was indeed convened in March and then another in November.
But apart from an important decision on debt relief for poor countries, according to
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