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Trump Policy Onslaught Dims G-20 Spotlight

The main hall at the G-20 meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, on Feb. 26.

Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg

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South Africa’s turn hosting the Group of 20 nations was supposed to be a time to focus on the priorities of the developing world.