“How Trump’s revival of G2 ghost is self-defeating for the US”, First Post, November 01, 2025
“Some of us believe that this world is run by a handful of people who sit at the big table and take decisions that affect the lives of all the others. When it comes to international politics, this seems to be rather true. Sometimes in the course of history, a few big countries, which are also referred to as great powers, have come along and jointly managed the international system, giving birth to arrangements such as the Concert of Europe in the nineteenth century, the G8 (now G7) in the twentieth, and the G2 in the 21st century.
Of all these arrangements, the idea of G2 is an interesting development in contemporary world politics. Originally conceived by an American economist, C Fred Bergsten, in 2005, it was pushed forward during the 2008 financial crisis when the West, especially the United States, had become too overwhelmed with managing the global financial architecture alone.
As the two largest economies and trading nations, there were suggestions that China should co-share the burden of managing the international economic system with the United States. While the term ‘G2’ had origins mostly in the economic sphere, slowly it took the form of an all-encompassing special relationship when officials from the Obama administration started pitching it as a possible way to manage the global problems along with an emerging China……..”
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