Since 2013, the OECD and G20 have worked on the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project, although the United States, under previous administrations, resisted the idea of a global tax rate.

"The two leaders agreed to formally launch negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement," Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand told The Canadian Press at the G20 summit in Johannesburg.

Xi missed the last G20 in India, so there was no shortage of Western leaders keen to meet with him. He also held bilateral talks with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

="A member of the anti-immigration vigilante group known as Operation Dudula, which means “push back” in Zulu, is confronted by a police officer during a protest near the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Nov. 22, 2025, during the G20

Police have often conducted large-scale operations against criminal groups ahead of major events in Rio, which hosted the 2016 Olympics, the 2024 G20 summit and the BRICS summit in July.

Petersburg for the G20 summit. A hastily organized meeting of foreign ministers on the sidelines appears designed to keep the larger economic forum from getting completely swamped with talk of the political crisis.

Xi also agreed at a meeting held during the G20 summit in Buenos Aires with Trump during his first term in 2018 that people in China who sell fentanyl to the United States will be subject to the maximum penalty under Chinese law.

The last time Albanese and Xi met was on the sidelines of the Rio de Janeiro G20 Summit in November 2024. During that meeting, Xi urged the formation of what he called a "comprehensive strategic partnership" between the two nations.

Aboriginal protesters burn an Australian flag during a rally in coincidence with the G20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, on Nov. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Dean Saffron) The Flynn MP said Australia is currently a divided nation.

The G20 summit is scheduled to take place in the city later this year, and Mr. Blinken also discussed the Biden administration’s and G20’s agreements to work on global climate, financial, and food security issues.

“When the storm comes, you want to hunker down and just sort of huddle up and wait for it to blow over," Trudeau said Nov. 18 during a G20 panel discussion. "We can’t do that around climate change."

Meanwhile, Xi may make a state visit to the United States and attend the G20 summit in Florida. “So if there are four meetings during the year, I think that that gives the relationship great stability,” Bessent said.

This was the final G20 summit Biden would attend as president, held on Nov. 18 and 19 in Rio de Janeiro.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat out G20 meetings in Johannesburg and expelled South Africa’s ambassador. Conflicting narratives surround the issue.

He last attended a G20 gathering in person in Osaka, Japan, in 2019.

“I will NOT attend the G20 summit in Johannesburg,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote on social media platform X on Feb. 5. “South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property.

Updating the Commons after last week’s G20 summit, Sir Keir Starmer reiterated his commitment to a “just and lasting peace” for Ukraine and stressed that Kyiv’s sovereignty “must be maintained”.

The trip involves the G20 leaders' summit in New Delhi, and a focus on economic ties in booming regions of Southeast Asia, as Canada seeks alternatives to a rising China.

That's before traveling to Rio de Janeiro for the G20 summit. Arian Pasdar is in Brazil. Before taking off, Trump joined UFC fans and some of his Cabinet selections for a championship fight at Madison Square Garden.

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is pictured during the group photo after attending the meeting on Sustainable Development and Energy Transition at the G20 Leaders' Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Nov. 19, 2024.

Senator Hume said Australia was the only developed nation in the G20 that banned itself from considering nuclear energy in its plan for a net zero future.

Carney made the “who cares” comment while responding to a reporter’s question about the timing of his last conversation with Trump, during a Nov. 23 press conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, while attending the G20 leaders’ summit.

"India is one of the leading developers of clean technology, particularly in solar and wind," Carney told reporters in South Africa on Nov. 23 as he was attending the G20 Summit in Johannesburg.

Ukraine Divides G20 At the conclusion of last year's summit, the G20 leaders agreed to a joint communiqué in which they "strongly condemned" the war in Ukraine.

That is no exaggeration—“existential threat” is the exact language used at intergovernmental forums such as the G20. Roughly $40 billion a year in funding proposed for the pandemic and One Health agendas is based on this premise.

This year’s G20 summit will be held on Nov. 18 and 19 in Rio de Janeiro. The two leaders had previously met on the sidelines of the G20 meetings in Bali, Indonesia, in 2022.

As host of the G20 this year, India has struggled to bridge the differences among member countries over the war in Ukraine.

Canada's debt levels, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said that Canada enjoys a sovereign credit rating of 'AAA', has the lowest net debt-to-GDP ratio in the G7, and "has been world acclaimed as a home for direct foreign investment and is top of the G20

"The time for decisive action is long overdue, and we count on a strong response from the United States, Europe, the G7, and the G20," he said on the Telegram messaging app.

(IFC Films) April 10 ‘G20’ Viola Davis (“Widows,” “The Woman King”) is the lead in another action drama, this time as U.S. President Danielle Sutton, who is attending a G20 summit in South Africa.