Millions of new poor are on the way — who cares?

ROME: The recent meeting of the G20 — scheduled to take place in Riyadh but held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic — has been an eloquent example of how the world is drifting in a crisis of leadership.

It was, in a sense, a showcase. Everybody had to accept the view that the host of the meeting, the ailing King Salman of Saudi Arabia, was accompanied on TV screens by his apparent heir, Prince Mohamed bin Salman, who is alleged to have been the mastermind of the brutal assassination, dismembering and disappearance of the body of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.