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Monday, June 1, 2020

Reshaping the G-7 - Trump Gets One Right

Enough of the G7, let’s try a G10

Trump seeks to shape world opinion on China with expanded G-7
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Trump-seeks-to-shape-world-opinion-on-China-with-expanded-G-7
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Jeremy Cliffe, International Editor of the New Statesman, notes:
“There are few limits on China’s military and economic power - the notion that it is threatened by tiny Hong Kong and Taiwan is absurd - what the country really lacks is friends. But for a few craven and transactional partners (Pakistan, Cambodia, Serbia and, perhaps increasingly, Russia) it is a lonely power that lacks genuinely committed and trusting allies of that sort that underpinned America’s long years of superpower-dom. China’s aggression, ultimately, hurts one country more than any other: China itself.”