THE SOUTH AFRICAN G20: a Suez-like shift in seasons
There was something faintly Suez-like about the G20 meeting in Johannesburg. The G20 felt less like a summit, more like a turning point. And even though the Summit did not solve every problem, it successfully shifted the center of gravity. The world came to Africa, and for the first time, Africa set the agenda. But even more significantly, America was not there to dictate. It is a stark reminder for President Trump that, after the Suez Canal fiasco where Britain and France marched into Egypt with all the pomp of imperial muscle, they only arrived to discover that the world had moved on.