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”.
在唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)今年6月初宣布他將讓美國退出《巴黎氣候變化協議》后，政治學家丹尼爾?德雷茲納(Daniel Drezner)在Twitter上發布推文稱：“這一天是德國總理安格拉?默克爾(Angela Merkel)成為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)漢堡峰會，并認清了我們必須共同塑造這個相互緊密聯系的世界的現實，她強調，德國選擇“平結”作為本屆G20峰會的標識，“因為這寓意漢堡的航海歷史”（漢堡是一個偉大的貿易城市），還因為“拉力越大，它（平結）就越有用和結實”。