What's the secret?
Pepe Escobar points out the contrast between the G7 or G6+1 or G8-56 or G321.5/2Pi or whatever meeting, and the simultaneous meeting of SCO, the economic organization of God's side.
The G7 or whatever meeting is a cacophonous nursery filled with psychotic retarded alien infants, and the SCO meeting is grownups dealing sanely with serious questions. Making new agreements to build the Silk Road facilities, bringing in Mongolia and Persia cautiously, preparing the ground for a unified Korea.
What's missing in all of these discussions? India. In fact India always manages to stay out of the spotlight. Its population is equal to China now, and will beat China next year because China's one-child policy flattened the curve. The biggest country in the world makes less news than Ecuador.
India has maintained strategic flexibility ever since independence, constantly fighting Pakistan over worthless Kashmir but not taking part in the big battles. East and West have always tried to lock India into taking a side, but India has always refused, and has never paid a price for refusing.
What's the secret?