You cannot take a rules-based order seriously when only some of the participants are playing by the rules You cannot take a rules-based order seriously when only some of the participants are playing by the rules W hen 200,000 protesters gathered to meet the G8 summit in Genoa , 25 years ago, their point (our point, in fact; I went on a coach, it took two and a half days) was that eight rich nations shouldn’t dictate the rules to the rest of the world. If you accept that power concedes nothing