Abstract

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China's leadership of the Group of Twenty (G20) in 2016 comes at a moment when the role of the G20 itself is being challenged by disappointingly slow global growth and a trend toward regionalism, epitomized by trade deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), as well as China's own One Belt, One Road initiative. At the same time, issues such as climate change and growing inequality are creating a rift between industrial and developing nations (and between the rich and the poor within countries) that has hampered progress on global solutions.