The 2026 Trump summit might be the club’s final act Another G20 summit convenes this week in Johannesburg, but the mood surrounding it says more than the agenda ever will. The forum was born not out of ideology but necessity. Its creation at the turn of the century followed the Asian financial crisis of 1997–98, when it became obvious that the global economy was too interconnected for a Western-only club like the G7 to manage shocks on its own. The logic was straightforward. If crises were