summitry

Despite recent frenetic summitry the politicians have failed to convince markets that this rescue fund will ever be adequately resourced.

IT WAS, veterans of economic summitry noted, the kind of idea a French minister would once have floated simply to annoy Gordon Brown.

With his call for more "forward-looking" relations, it is possible that his summitry will be deemed a success by all sides.

Resource disputes are inherently messy and will not likely be decided by grand proclamations or multilateral summitry.

In trade negotiations and international financial summitry, for instance, China often plays a peripheral role.

The crisis is pushing the world's fourth-largest economy, with the biggest foreign-exchange reserves, to the centre of global summitry.

The Khrushchev- Eisenhower exchange of visits and summitry does not mean all is well with the world.

The appearances in Moscow and Accra will be bookends around another round of important multilateral summitry .

The centre of global economic summitry has shifted from the G7 (the rich countries' club) to a broader group.

Yet through all the recent weeks of crisis-driven summitry, little has been heard from Germany.

This helps explain why China, whatever the glamour of summitry and war games, prefers to do some kinds of business one-to-one.

Mr Abe's prescient summitry has gained him much respect in the region and at home, but China has been caught on the back foot.

Endless summitry may not have resolved the euro crisis but it has given the German chancellor a political lift