G-7 leaders try to signal that page has turned on Trump era
ST. IVES, England —The tableau on a windy Cornish beach on Friday was both odd — smiling world leaders in tailored suits standing on a makeshift platform above the blowing sand — and arrestingly normal.
If not for the elbow bumps instead of handshakes and hugs, the scene at the opening of the Group of Seven economic meeting here could have been mistaken for a time before the global pandemic and before Donald Trump.
It was less clear whether the world’s wealthy democracies can return to normal in more substantive ways — with the sort of cooperation that was once routine but unraveled in the Trump era — given that populism and nationalism remain powerful in many countries, including the United States.
The leaders did their best Friday to signal that a page had turned. The United States and the other G-7 nations pledged to donate 1 billion vaccines to poorer nations as they kicked off their first meeting since before covid-19 killed 3.7 million people and ravaged the world’s economies.
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