G20 finance leaders agree trade tensions have ‘intensified’
By DW
10 June 2019 |
10:36 am
G20 finance chiefs said trade and geopolitical tensions have intensified but did not express a pressing need to resolve them. Their communique outlines a pickup in global growth.
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