Trump G7
Donald Trump has postponed the trump
g7 summit until after the summer and pledged to invite Russia and
several other nations to expand the membership beyond what he called a “very
outdated” arrangement. The US president had hoped to host the leaders of the trump g7 nations — Germany,
France, Canada, Japan, Italy and the UK — at the White House next month. But he
postponed the annual forum after German Chancellor Angela Merkel declined to
attend the event in person. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One as he
returned from the launch of the SpaceX rocket in Florida, Mr Trump said the trump g7 forum was not
representative of what was “going on in the world” today.
Thomas Wright, a foreign policy expert at the Brookings Institution,
said the trump g7 members
would not agree to a formal enlargement, but there was precedent to invite
other leaders on a one-off basis. Mr Trump had hoped to use the trump g7 to build a coalition
to put pressure on China, particularly over its recent decision to impose
national security laws on Hong Kong.
Mr Trump originally planned to host the trump g7 summit at one of his golf resorts in Florida, but reversed
course after facing criticism. He then suggested Camp David, the presidential
retreat, before floating the idea of holding a virtual summit owing to the
coronavirus pandemic.
Mr Trump has faced a rocky time at summits. At the trump g7 in
Canada in 2018, he called his officials from Air Force One on the way home to
tell them not to sign the communique as he was unhappy at something that Prime
minister Justin Trudeau had said at a press conference.
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