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membership beyond what he called a “very outdated” arrangement.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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