“Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab” at the summit of twenty in Indonesia? What you should know

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• Since November 14, 2022, Twitter and Facebook posts have protested the presence of Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft Corporation, and Klaus Schwab, founder of the Davos Forum, at the G20 summit, an event that brings together the most developed countries in the world. countries, held this year in Indonesia.
• The post is based on a photo of Klaus Schwab alongside New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
• This photo was taken a few days before the G20 summit in Cambodia during the East Asia Summit.
• Then Klaus Schwab went to Indonesia, but took part in the B20, a summit that brought together the most important business leaders and was held in parallel with the G20. It is responsible for making policy recommendations and has no decision-making power.
• Bill Gates did not go to Indonesia for the G20.

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“What are Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab doing at the G20 meeting? In what capacity were they invited? Who makes the decisions on this planet?!” These are the questions a Twitter user asked at Posted on November 14, 2022more than 4000 times.

In support: An image showing Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, or Davos Forum, a nonprofit that brings together business leaders whose stated goal is to “improve the state of the world.” He appears alongside his wife Hilde Schwab and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

For many users, this picture is taken As part of the annual summit of the Group of Twenty, which is an intergovernmental forum consisting of 19 countries with the most developed economies and the European Union. This was held on the 15th and 16th of November 2022 in Bali, Indonesia.

“Why does Klaus Schwab (and Bill Gates) attend the G20 summit? Why do they participate in the same way as the leaders of sovereign states?” This Twitter user asks in a similar way Tweet from November 15, 2022 in English which has more than 12,000 shares.

Photo taken during the East Asian Summit dinner

However, this photo was not taken at the G20 summit, contrary to what these publications claim. This we can realize thanks to reverse image search (see over here how to proceed).

This image in particular can be found at Article from the New Zealand HeraldNew Zealand’s leading newspaper. The article is dated November 13, 2022, two days before the start of the G20 Summit.

“Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern enters the East Asia Summit dinner with Klaus Schwab, President of the World Economic Forum,” the caption read.

The article covers the Prime Minister’s participation in the East Asia Summit, which includes the ten countries that make up ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), as well as eight countries with interests in the region, including New Zealand. This was held from November 10 to 13, 2022, in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia.

As you can read in In this November 11, 2022 article from the Cambodian Phnom Penh PostKlaus Schwab visited Cambodia with the aim of “strengthening cooperation between Cambodia and the World Economic Forum” and participated in the East Asia Summit in this context.

New Zealand did not participate in the G20 summit, nor was it a permanent member or an invited country.

Klaus Schwab called for the B20, the relevant platform for the G20

If this photo was taken in Cambodia, then Klaus Schwab went to Bali on the sidelines of the G20. But he only participated in the G20 summit, which is a forum for dialogue between heads of state and business leaders, which is held in parallel with the G20 summit.

On the other hand, the B20 Summit aims to transmit the G20 Presidency policy recommendations formulated by the business community, as shown B20 Summit 2022 website.

As the founder of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab spoke on November 14, 2022 on the topic “Harnessing the Power of Innovation for Future Economic Growth”, as can be read in This is the program for the B20 Summit. His interference can be found on YouTube.

In addition to Klaus Schwab, Tesla founder and recent Twitter buyer Elon Musk or Amazon founder Jeff Bezos also intervened.

The founder of the Davos Forum did not participate in the G20 joint summit itself, to which only heads of state and government are invited. During this summit, discussions are held, decisions are made and final statements are formulated.

The participation of Klaus Schwab and other business leaders in parallel discussions is part of a general trend of increasing civil society involvement in international relations.

In addition to the G20, the 2022 G20 Summit created nine other groups with a mission to provide policy recommendations to G20 leaders. These collected, for example, women (W20), young people (Y20) or personalities from the scientific field (S20).

These discussions are intended to fuel debate and can influence formal discussions, but “states retain a monopoly on international relations as decision-making actors,” as researcher Cyril Brett explains. In this article from Atlantico.

Another photo in which Klaus Schwab appears next to representatives of the state, a.s British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeauoutside of proper G20 discussions, during informal exchanges.

Bill Gates did not make it to the G20

Billionaire Bill Gates, who was quoted by the initial publications, was also present at the G-20 summit in Indonesia? Twitter posts (see over here For example) he shared a video, claiming that it showed one of his speeches at the G20 2022.

However, the sequence was captured in 2010 while Bill Gates was participating in the Aspen Ideas Festival, in the US, as mentioned. This July 9, 2010 article is from the Aspen Times. You can find his entry in YouTube.

If he had already gone to the G-20 summits, In 2011 for exampleThe Microsoft co-founder did not attend the G-20 summit this year, he confirmed to the American magazine Newsweek. He indicated that he was already in Kenya in order to develop his foundation’s projects that are being implemented there his Twitter account.

However, her Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was represented: she was one of the organizations involved in launching a Epidemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response Financial Fund.

Bill Gates is regularly the target of manipulative rumors or assertions, particularly those promoted in conspiratorial spheres, which the Observers of France 24 has already had the opportunity to look into.

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