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”.
在唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)今年6月初宣布他将让美国退出《巴黎气候变化协议》后，政治学家丹尼尔•德雷兹纳(Daniel Drezner)在Twitter上发布推文称：“这一天是德国总理安格拉•默克尔(Angela Merkel)成为自由世界领袖的日子。”默克尔在本月早些时候主持20国集团(G20)汉堡峰会，并认清了我们必须共同塑造这个相互紧密联系的世界的现实，她强调，德国选择“平结”作为本届G20峰会的标识，“因为这寓意汉堡的航海历史”（汉堡是一个伟大的贸易城市），还因为“拉力越大，它（平结）就越有用和结实”。