2 CWP alums Zongyuan Zoe Liu & Manjari Chatterjee Miller Preview the G20 Summit in India

CFR experts discuss the upcoming Group of Twenty (G20) Summit beginning on September 9 in New Delhi.

FROMAN: Welcome, everybody, to our virtual media briefing on the G-20. My name’s Mike Froman. I am the president of the Council on Foreign Relations. And I’m delighted to have three of our fellows with us here today: Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Heidi Crebo-Rediker, and Zoe Liu. Thank you for joining us.

Let me start perhaps by—with some introductory framing. Some of you may know I was the G-20 sherpa for about four years during the Obama administration, from 2009 through 2012. That was in some ways the heyday of the G-20. It had just been made a leaders-level organization at the end of the Bush administration and then into the Obama administration, and it was very much focused on firefighting around the global financial crisis. And there was a great deal of collaboration between countries at that point, and each summit built on the other. At some points there were two summits a year, in fact, to mobilize resources for the international financial institutions, to forge opportunities for regulatory cooperation in the financial sector across markets, and to coordinate macroeconomic policies to ensure that the Great Recession didn’t turn into a global depression. And in sum, it broadly worked as a crisis management mechanism, as a(n) avenue for countries to come together in the midst of a financial crisis to forge their collaboration. It then evolved over the years into something much broader. It took on broader agenda items, from development to other issues. And it sort of has waxed and waned year by year depending on the nature of international cooperation.

https://www.cfr.org/event/g20-summit-preview - Thursday, September 7, 2023

Manjari Chatterjee Miller is senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is also a research associate in the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford. An expert on India, China, South Asia, and rising powers, she is the author of Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power (2021, shortlisted for the 2022 Hedley Bull Prize in International Relations) and Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China (2013). Miller is also the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations (2020), a monthly columnist for the Hindustan Times, and a frequent contributor to policy and media outlets in the United States and Asia.

Zongyuan Zoe Liu is Maurice R. Greenberg fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Her work focuses on international political economy, global financial markets, sovereign wealth funds, supply chains of critical minerals, development finance, emerging markets, energy and climate change policy, and East Asia-Middle East relations. Dr. Liu’s regional expertise is in East Asia, specifically China and Japan, and the Middle East, specifically Gulf Cooperation Council countries. Dr. Liu is the author of Can BRICS De-dollarize the Global Financial System? (Cambridge University Press) and Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances its Global Ambitions (Harvard University Press).

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