WASHINGTON, D.C.—The G8/20 is over; the fake lake remains. And while it is easy to be cynical (or just skeptical) about the virtues of vastly expensive, pre-scripted conferences with leaders reading set piece speeches and endorsing prepared pabulum communiqués masquerading as defining documents, there is at least hope that in ancillary one-on-ones between leaders and/or senior staff, something is accomplished.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The G8/20 is over; the fake lake remains. And while it is easy to be cynical (or just skeptical) about the virtues of vastly expensive, pre-scripted conferences with leaders reading set piece speeches and endorsing prepared pabulum communiqués masquerading as defining documents, there is at least hope that in ancillary one-on-ones between leaders and/or senior staff, something is accomplished.