Senior officials including US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have already boycotted preparatory meetings hosted by South Africa (Dispatches 21/7/25 Two cheers for multilateralism)...
DISPATCHES
Vol 66 No 15 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
- G20
But getting agreement on any text in the absence of the United States whose Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent boycotted the meeting for a second time underlining the pariah status which the Trump administration has given to Cyril Ramaphosa's government must count as a significant success (Dispatches 18/2/25 Brussels offers hand of friendship & AC Vol 66 No 7 Pretoria picks new envoy for the MAGA minefield)...
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent insisted on 23 April that his administration wasn't planning to withdraw from the Washington-based international financial institutions as proposed by the conservative Heritage Foundation but he want to several radical changes to their operations...