June 16, 2025

G7

 NPR - President Trump and leaders of some of the world's biggest economic powers are in the Canadian Rockies this week for the annual G7 summit. The gathering comes at a tense time, as the Israel-Iran conflict escalates, the Ukraine-Russia war continues, and Trump has imposed tariffs on all of his fellow G7 countries. 

Trump and his fellow G7 leaders have clashed in the past over differing values, NPR White House correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben says. Trump's team wanted narrowly focused G7 agendas, centered mostly on economics, while other leaders wanted to talk about more expansive topics like climate change and gender equality. Leaders usually wrap the summit with a joint statement called a communique, but they've scrapped that approach this year. Kelly Ann Shaw, Trump's lead negotiator in 2019, calls the move "an improvement" and said last year's communique was "full of empty promises and platitudes."

 

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