Our first glimpse of the trouble in coordinating an international response to the financial crisis came last November, during the emergency G-20 summit in Washington. To get the G-8 to agree on priorities is a complicated enough; building consensus within the G-20 is exponentially more difficult, not simply because of the larger number of players involved, but because many of them don’t agree on the most basic rules of the global economic game.
去年11月份，在华盛顿20国紧急峰会上，我们已经目睹参会各国在如何协调应对危机上的不协调之音。在随后的8国峰会上也是争论不断。20国峰会上各国不可能达成共识的理由很多，不仅是由于如此众多的参会国家，更因为许多国家对国际经济的基本游戏规则都不认可。