2016 G20 Hangzhou summit

The 2016 G20 Hangzhou summit was the eleventh meeting of the Group of Twenty. It was held in the city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang. It was the first ever G20 summit to be hosted in China and the second in an Asian country after 2010 G20 Seoul summit was hosted in South Korea.

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Context

Pollution in China

In the days before the G20 Hangzhou summit, only some vehicles were allowed through the city, construction sites were stopped, inhabitants received a week-long holidays and factories in the region were asked to stop their production.

Climate change

On 3 September 2016, Barack Obama and Xi Jinping announced the ratification of the Paris Agreement by their countries, bringing the total number of countries ratifying the agreement to 26; the United States and China represent respectively 18 percent and 20 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions.

Economic statements

The main themes of final communiqué of the summit are:

Fight against tax evasion.
Favour international trade and investments and opposition to protectionism.
Fiscal stimulus and innovation to boost economic growth.
Combating "populist attacks" against globalization.
Strengthen support for refugees.

Summit documents

The heads of state and government of G20 issued a joint statement with a summary of the main results of the meeting. The statement is divided in the following documents:

Communiqué 2016
Annex to the Leaders' Declaration
Hangzhou Action Plan
Blueprint on Innovative Growth
G20 Action Plan on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Participating leaders

List of leaders who took part in the 2016 G20 Hangzhou summit:

Controversies

President Obama was snubbed by CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party as he descended from Air Force One to the tarmac of Hangzhou International Airport without the usual red carpet welcome.

Internet censorship

CCP general secretary Xi Jinping in the speech quoted "Guoyu", Traditional Chinese history books, in Chapter 9 of the "", but he mistakenly pronounced it as "通商宽衣", the Central Propaganda Department ordered media and social platforms to prohibit this discussion.

Russian hacking of 2016 United States elections

In December 2016, President Obama stated that, when Obama was in China in early September 2016, he told Vladimir Putin not to hack the U.S. election infrastructure. Obama stated, "What I was concerned about in particular was making sure the 2016 DNC hack wasn't compounded by potential hacking that could hamper vote counting, affect the actual election process itself." He continued, "So in early September, when I saw President Putin in China, I felt that the most effective way to ensure that that didn’t happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out and there were going to be serious consequences if he didn’t. And in fact we did not see further tampering of the election process."