G20 Leaders Release The Ultimate Virtue Signal

The 2025 G20 Leaders Declaration, adopted in Johannesburg this afternoon, sets out an ambitious and wide ranging agenda shaped around purported African priorities, global instability and the demands of a world undergoing rapid economic, technological and environmental change - yet the text leans heavily on voluntary commitments, vague principles that are often contradicted by G20 members themselves, and aspirational targets raising questions about how much the G20 can realistically deliver.