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Alex Lo: Why China, Not the G7 is Setting the Global Agenda

US President Joe Biden arrives for an EU - US summit at the European Union headquarters in Brussels on June 15, 2021. KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP

Now that analysts and observers have had a few days to digest last weekend’s announcements from the G7 summit in Cornwall, England, there’s a growing sense that outcomes from the club of rich democracies did not rise to the challenges of the moment, specifically in their effort to confront China.

“None of the G7 leaders is on solid enough ground to push for daring and major changes in the global order,” lamented the Editorial Board of The Age, Australia’s paper of record.

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