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US hollows out G20 agenda, casts Miami summit as ‘backdrop for Trump-Xi meeting’: sources

US hollows out G20 agenda, casts Miami summit as ‘backdrop for Trump-Xi meeting’: sources
South China Morning Post Tuesday 30 June 2026, 22:49 UTC By Igor Patrick 1 min read
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The United States is working to hollow out the G20’s agenda and turn its December summit “into a backdrop” for a likely meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Miami, the South China Morning Post has learned. Two delegation members described the effort as the group’s top negotiators, also known as sherpas, met in Washington on Monday and Tuesday for their second in a planned series of sessions to draft the Joint Declaration that leaders are to issue at...

The United States is working to hollow out the G20’s agenda and turn its December summit “into a backdrop” for a likely meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Miami, the South China Morning Post has learned. Two delegation members described the effort as the group’s top negotiators, also known as sherpas, met in Washington on Monday and Tuesday for their second in a planned series of sessions to draft the Joint Declaration that leaders are to issue at the...
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