After Donald Trump announced that he was pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change at the beginning of June, political scientist Daniel Drezner tweeted: “This was the day that Angela Merkel became leader of the free world.” Hosting the G20 in Hamburg earlier this month, and recognising the reality of a deeply interconnected world that we must shape together, she emphasised that Germany chose the square knot as the logo for this G20 meeting “because it refers to the maritime heritage of Hamburg”, a great trading city, and because “it is particularly effective and strong when you pull on it with greater force”.
在唐納•川普(Donald Trump)今年6月初宣佈他將讓美國退出《巴黎氣候變化協議》後，政治學家丹尼爾•德雷茲納(Daniel Drezner)在Twitter上發佈推文稱：「這一天是德國總理安格拉•梅克爾(Angela Merkel)成爲自由世界領袖的日子。」默克爾在本月早些時候主持20國集團(G20)漢堡峯會，並認清了我們必須共同塑造這個相互緊密聯繫的世界的現實，她強調，德國選擇「平結」作爲本屆G20峯會的標識，「因爲這寓意漢堡的航海歷史」（漢堡是一個偉大的貿易城市），還因爲「拉力越大，它（平結）就越有用和結實」。