Fourth in a Series on U.S. Global Leadership: "I had hoped your President would attend (the G20 meetings in November). He kept enticing me with the promise he'd attend, but he doesn't seem to be living up to it." So said South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who chairs this G20 round, about the U.S. Administration's engagement - or lack of it - in global leadership. He spoke to us yesterday at the Council on Foreign Relations, having addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Monday and reminding the world that Africa's 1.4 billion people have no permanent voice on the U.N. Security Council. Two principles really matter here. The first one is that the U.S. needs to show up if it is to exert and sustain serious, credible global leadership. It needs to be present. It needs to be engaged. This is not the case in U.S. foreign policy currently, as we abdicate membership and participation in numerous multilateral bodies while destroying our ability to invest and infl...
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