But Snowden’s revelations that the London summit’s British hosts allegedly monitored the participants’ communications make it difficult to imagine that the genuine intimacy of earlier summits can ever be recreated. And, with the espionage apparently directed mostly at representatives of emerging economies, the gulf between the advanced countries and those on the rise has widened further.
但无论事实证明伦敦峰会所取得的成就多么有限，在斯诺登泄密事件之前峰会本身还没有彻底失信。或许因为领导人及工作人员居然天真到相信他们的信息联络真正安全。但斯诺登披露伦敦峰会英国主办方监控与会者的信息传递使人们相信早前峰会真正保密的状况很难再现。而且因为间谍活动显然更多地针对新兴经济体代表，发达国家和新兴国家之间的鸿沟也因此进一步加深。