Governor Jerry Brown, crushing hapless Republican opposition in his drive for a record fourth term governor of the nation's largest state, held his own parallel summit with Xi last year when Obama and Xi met in California.
Governor Jerry Brown conducted his own very expansive trip to China earlier this year, then held in effect a parallel summit to the Obama-Xi summit in Rancho Mirage, California, meeting separately with the Chinese president, whom he already knew, and hosting China's first couple for much of the summit's weekend.
UNICEF's contribution to youth participation at the global level includes an active role in the Junior 8 (J8) summits, the parallel summits to the G8 event.
On Tuesday, February 5 at 1 30 p.m. PST, I will co-host a Google Hangout live from the Parallels Summit with Krishnan Subramanian, founder of Rishidot Research.
Two other Cuba-related dramas to watch: Cuban Minister of International Trade and Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca, is scheduled to address the parallel CEO Summit of corporate leaders -- but will he make a compelling case for why they should invest in Cuba?; And how will the large Cuban delegation to a second parallel event -- the Civil Society Forum -- behave?
The young people also spoke about their participation in various working groups during the parallel youth summit namely, the evaluation and follow-up group, the drafting group, the media group and cultural group.
Just as the explosive Snowden revelation casts a sharp alternative light on dynamics and meaning of the U.S.-China Summit, a parallel alternative summit taking place around the same time and vicinity provided a special perspective.
The voices of ordinary people are primarily heard in grassroots gatherings parallel to the summit, as well as in marches and protests, which in turn attract media coverage.
The highest peak, Mount Narodnaya, reaches 6,217 feet (1,895 metres), but the system is largely composed of a series of broken, parallel ridges with summits generally between 3,000 and 5,000 feet (900 and 1,500 metres); several low passes cut through the system, particularly in the central section between Perm and Yekaterinburg, which carry the main routes from Europe into Siberia.
The cooperation does not extend to holding a scheduled meeting parallel to the G20 summit this week, however.
At the Global Landscapes Forum - which ran in parallel with the climate summit in Paris in December - there were glimmers of a very different story emerging.
