French president warned G7 members to resist a potential US drift toward 'crude hegemony' following
'the Con’s' tariffs on allies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/07/macron-g7-summit-trump-trade-policy-hegemony
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Emmanuel Macron has called on other members of the G7 to stand up to Donald Trump’s trade policies in the face of what he described as the threat of a new US “hegemony”.
The French president was speaking alongside the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, who is hosting the G7 summit in Quebec amid sharp disagreements between the US president and the six other leaders of industrialized liberal democracies over trade, climate change and the nuclear deal with Iran.
Macron called on other G7 leaders not to water down a joint communique at the end of the summit, at the expense of shared values, simply in an effort to win Trump’s signature, warning that a “G6 plus one” outcome was possible.
Both Trudeau and Macron emphasised the importance of dialogue and courtesy at the summit, which begins on Friday. They said it was an essential forum for finding common ground and resolving differences.
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