Neither side will volunteer to bear the costs of recalibrating the relationship.

Our Lingua project, where people from around the world volunteer to translate Global Voices content into different languages, has experienced astounding growth since it began 3 years ago.

Everyone who works on Global Voices is motivated by passion for featuring voices that are rarely heard outside their own communities, for defending freedom of speech online, for building connections between people around the world.

The term is claimed to have originated from an NBC documentary in 1944, due to the phenomenon of children being left home alone becoming common during and after World War II, when one parent would be enlisted into the armed forces, so the other would have to get a job.

Neither side will volunteer to bear the costs of recalibrating the relationship. As a result, the summit will most likely produce sincere pledges to work together to stimulate the global recovery and adjust the two sides economic imbalances but not much more.