SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa called for enhanced cooperation within the Group of 20 nations as his US counterpart Donald Trump upends the world order in pursuit of his America First agenda.
“Multilateral cooperation is our only hope of overcoming unprecedented challenges, including slow and uneven growth, rising debt burdens and levels, persistent poverty in many parts of the world, and inequality and the existential threat of climate change,” Ramaphosa said in his opening address to a meeting of G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Cape Town on Wednesday. “We are not moving quickly enough and even boldly enough to address the challenges that the world is facing.”