G20 finance chiefs express concern over risks from 'intensified' trade conflict


  • World
  • Sunday, 09 Jun 2019

Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso poses with delegations members for a family photo during the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Fukuoka, Japan June 9, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

FUKUOKA, Japan (Reuters) - Group of 20 finance leaders on Sunday said that trade and geopolitical tensions have "intensified", raising risks to improving global growth, but they stopped short of calling for a resolution of a deepening U.S.-China trade conflict.

After fiery negotiations that nearly aborted the issuance of a communique, finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in southern Japan repeated tepid support for a rules-based multilateral trading system.

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