Which of the following is NOT correctly matched ? (Summit) (Place)

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Correct — A is the mismatched pair, so it is the answer. The East Asia Summit for 2020 (the 15th EAS, November 2020) was chaired and hosted by Vietnam and held virtually because of COVID-19 — it was NOT held in Singapore. Singapore had hosted the East Asia Summit earlier, in 2018. So 'East Asia Summit, 2020 – Singapore' is incorrectly matched; the other three pairings are correct.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) This IS correctly matched, so it is not the answer. The 14th G-20 Summit was held in Osaka, Japan, in June 2019.  (c) This IS correctly matched. The 45th G-7 Summit was hosted by France at Biarritz in August 2019.  (d) This IS correctly matched. The 14th East Asia Summit was held in Bangkok, Thailand (hosted by Thailand as ASEAN chair), in November 2019.

Concept: The question tests the host cities/years of major multilateral summits. The G-7 (advanced economies) rotates its presidency among members; the G-20 (major advanced + emerging economies) does likewise; the East Asia Summit (EAS) is an ASEAN-led forum whose venue follows the annual ASEAN chair. Because the host rotates each year, 'summit + year → place' pairings are a favourite matching-question format.

State PCS 2020 Q47 — Current Affairs PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2020 Q47 — Current Affairs PYQ with Answer