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THE G7 meet in Cornwall. The United States is back. The world’s richest nations are once again to take the lead.
The humanitarian disasters that are their responses to Covid are brushed aside; the last 20 years of failed wars and financial crises, forgotten.
Billed as the most consequential G7 summit in 20 years, this is the platform for Joe Biden’s global launch of his new cold war on China.
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