1、CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress INSIGHTINSIGHTi i The G-20 Summit and Trump-Xi Meeting in Buenos Aires: Key Outcomes -name redacted- Specialist in International Trade and Finance -name redacted- Specialist in Asian Trade and Finance December 4, 2018 Argentina hosted the a
2、nnual Group of 20 (G-20) summit on November 30 and December 1 in Buenos Aires. The G-20 is a forum for advancing international economic cooperation and coordination among 20 major economies, including the United States, that together account for about 85% of global economic output. In recent years,
3、the G-20 has also increasingly become a forum for discussing pressing foreign policy issues. Although Argentina set the agenda for 2018, proposing a focus on the future of work, infrastructure development, and food security, most attention in the lead-up to the summit focused on how the U.S. role in
4、 international forums would continue to evolve under the Trump Administration; the key commitments in the joint statement (communiqu), if one was produced at all (a challenge in other recent summits); and the bilateral side meeting between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. U.S. Role