South Africa will host the G20 summit this weekend, prioritizing debt relief for developing nations and efforts to reduce global inequality, while the United States boycotts the gathering. President Cyril Ramaphosa said Washington’s absence from the November 22–23 meeting is “their loss,” as tensions continue between the two countries over the summit’s agenda.
The US, the most influential member of the G20—which accounts for 85 percent of global GDP and about two-thirds of the world’s population—is skipping the event as part of President Donald Trump’s broader withdrawal from multilateral platforms. The boycott follows a similar move at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, and comes amid US tariffs on several nations,…