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

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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...