The Irish Times view on the G20 summit : less than the sum of its parts

Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, greets members of the media during the closing of the Group of 20 Leaders Summit in New Delhi, India, on Sunday( Photographer: Prakash Singh/Bloomberg) It was the intensive bilaterals and the side events, and the attendance and the significant non-attendance, which would make the G20 economic forum what it was, an underwhelming expression of global resolve, always somewhat less than the sum of its parts. The US/EU announcement on the summit margins that they plan to build to build a rail and shipping corridor from India through the Middle East to Europe was undoubtedly the…