The 55th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, has long been seen as a major globalist event, but this year the leaders of the world’s most powerful nations are skipping the meeting.
President Donald Trump is scheduled to address the forum by video link on Thursday, but Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, Indian President Narendra Modi, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are among the no-shows. The only G7 leader to attend in person is German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
“True, the prime minister of Spain is going to be there, and there are a couple of others, but the general picture of the heads of state, of government that are there is that it’s not the big players. I think if you went through a list of the G20, it’s going to be a small minority,” Leiden University professor of global transformations Jan Aart Scholte observed to CNBC last Thursday.
One G20 leader who made the trip was South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who delivered an address on Tuesday. South Africa currently holds the rotating G20 presidency. Last year’s president, Brazil, did not send its head of state to Davos this year.
The libertarian man of the hour, Argentina’s Javier Milei, did make the pilgrimage to Davos, and so did Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose defense against the Russian invasion has been financed by much of the G20. […]
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