NEWS ANALYSIS: Trump's G-20 ends with few prizes, little consensus on his goals
Ahead of his first G-20 summit, Donald Trump took to Twitter to weigh in on his concerns. From bad trade deals ("the worst’’) to North Korea’s nuclear ambitions ("this nonsense’’) to steel dumping ("don’t like’’), Trump highlighted what he’d hit head-on in Hamburg. The problem for the president: he comes home from the Group of 20 summit with little concrete progress on those issues, while the differences between himself and the rest of the world are greater than ever. Trump got lectured on trade by China and France and won platitudes from other nations — but no evident progress — on North Korea. The starkest difference was on climate: the G-20’s final statement called the 2015 Paris accord "irreversible." Trump abandoned the pact last month. In his first sit-down with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Trump’s twin concerns, Iran and Ukraine, were barely touched upon as the two agreed on a Syrian cease-fire, details to come. On North Korea, meetings between Trump and the leaders of South Kore...
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