The G-20′s ascension as the world’s main economic steering committee over the Group of Seven industrial nations could have dangerous consequences for the United States, foreign policy expert Kiron Skinner tells Newsmax.TV.
“It would allow countries like China and Russia to make decisions that affect the U.S.,” Skinner said. “It would allow countries like Brazil and South Africa as well.”
And that would be just the start, said Skinner, director of Carnegie Mellon University’s International Relations and Politics Program.
“I’m not exactly sure where the Obama administration is on all of this, but if this keeps moving, what ultimately happens is that we have a G system that includes perhaps 33 countries, perhaps 50 countries and then we have U.S. policy being dictated to by countries like Iran and Venezuela and some smaller countries that don’t carry the kind of burden that the U.S. carries in the world,” Skinner warned.
“The U.S. provides extended deterrence for most of Europe and North America. It comprises half the defense spending of the world; it has the world’s best fighting force. Should it be dictated to by countries that don’t begin to make that kind of international contribution?”
Newsmax.TV interviewed Skinner as she attended the G-20 summit this week in Pittsburgh, asking whether she believes the United States really needs the G-20.
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