Tag: G7

G7/BRI – How should the G-7 respond to China’s BRI? (Howard W. French and David Dollar, Brookings)

When the leaders of G-7 countries met in Carbis Bay last month, they announced a new Build Back Better World (B3W) plan to support...

Vaccine/Pandemic/G7 – The G7 Vaccine Charade (James K. Galbraith, Project-Syndicate)

The US and Europe are offering low- and middle-income countries crumbs, so that they can protect their billionaires, their pharmaceutical lobbies, and their campaign...

China/G7 – The dragon in the room (Harsh V. Pant, ORF)

As Joe Biden rallied American allies and partners during his first overseas trip since taking on the presidency of the United States of America,...

G7 – The G7’s jumpstart for multilateral cooperation (Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit, East Asia Forum)

The 47th G7 Summit was held between 11–13 June 2021 in the United Kingdom. Global problems need global solutions and the G7 is one...

G7/Financial and Monetary Systems – Corporate tax isn’t working – how can we fix it, globally? (Andrea Willige, WEF)

Taxation will play a big part in the post-pandemic rebuild of the world economy. Corporate tax has been a thorny topic as some...

G7/Vaccine – The G7’s vaccine pledge is a ‘big help’, but what about distribution and delivery? (John Letzing, WEF)

The G7 pledged to dramatically increase vaccine donations to developing countries. But serious challenges remain in terms of distributing the doses necessary to...

G7 – Taking stock of the G7 on climate action (Rebecca Peters, Antony Froggatt, Chatham House)

As the Group of Seven (G7) convened for its first summit since the pandemic began last year, there were a series of interlinked crises...

G7 – The G7 suns its Cornwall Consensus (David Vines, East Asia Forum)

This was a summit at which international cooperation was relaunched. Washington is back. Britain has gone global. The sun shone on the beaches in...

G7 – The G7’s New Global Infrastructure Initiative (Matthew P. Goodman, Jonathan E. Hillman, CSIS)

Group of Seven (G7) leaders meeting in Cornwall, England, on June 11-13 agreed on a new initiative to support global infrastructure investment, launched as...

G7/China – What can the G-7 learn from China’s transition to climate-smart growth? (Ed Araral, Brookings)

As the leaders of the G-7 gathered for their summit in the U.K., the elephant was not in the room: China and its transition...

G7 – The change we need will never come from the G7 (Nick Dearden, Al Jazeera)

US President Joe Biden, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, European Council President Charles Michel, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Italy's Prime Minister Mario...

G7 – We Don’t Need the G7 (Jeffrey D. Sachs, Project-Syndicate)

The latest G7 summit was a waste of resources. If it had to be held at all, it should have been conducted online, saving...

G7 – As G7 takes on China at five fronts, India engages with B3W (Gautam Chikermane, ORF)

Full credit to US President Joe Biden for turning the G7 juggernaut around and bringing it back to first principles of international engagements, putting...

G7 – G7 pledge cooperation on carbon leakage as EU border tariff looms (Euractiv)

Female members of the environmental movement Extinction Rebellion (XR) pose as G7 leaders during a demonstration in St. Ives, Cornwall, Britain, 13 June 2021....

G7 – Global governance reform needs leadership from the developing world (East Asia Forum)

The G7 is back. A post-Brexit ‘Global Britain’ has ambitions for an international leadership role and has coordinated a call from the Group of...

Global Health/Climate Change/G7 – The challenge for G7 leaders: vaccinate the world and be bolder on climate (Paul Polman, WEF)

The G7 Summit will require high ambitions on vaccination and climate. Image: REUTERS As G7 leaders meet, the costs of not acting on public health,...