The arrival of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the G-20 summit in Argentina will be an awkward moment. Leaders of the world's strongest economies with tight smiles will accept him as a peer among equals. The political theater aside, there also will be awkward, and ideally substantive, conversations about the G-20 agenda which aims to create global growth that is “fair and sustainable.” The US tariffs on China are the most obvious difference of opinion on “fairness,” but the trajectory of growth in Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East is also less than “sustainable.”
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