‘America Is Back’ as G-7 Tackles World Crises: Weekend Reads
Group of Seven leaders meet in Carbis Bay, U.K. on June 11.
Photographer: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images
The Covid-19 pandemic and vaccines for poorer nations, climate change, a festering dispute about a post-Brexit trade accord, and the need for a united front toward China and Russia dominated this weekend’s Group of Seven meetings on the rugged English coast jutting into the Atlantic.
A renewed commitment to multilateralism was signaled by U.S. President Joe Biden’s arrival with his clear message that “America is back.”
Wuhan, the believed center of the Covid-19 outbreak, was back in focus with growing pressure for a new investigation into the origins of the coronavirus and the possibility that it emerged from a local lab. Beijing officials have repeatedly denied that theory.
The apparent victory of a leftist presidential candidate in Peru increased the chances of a significant political swing across Latin America.
Dig deeper into these and other topics with this edition of Weekend Reads. — Karl Maier
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