Indonesia’s G20 needs to secure open trade for recovery from crisis and conflict

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine makes the cooperation agenda for pandemic recovery much harder. It has also threatened to derail the G20 summit altogether. But the global community has shown its ability to rapidly coordinate economic sanctions and present a largely united front against a war of aggression. Despite the tragedy from the conflict and its effect to the global economy, this also underlines the security dimension of economic interdependence.