Trump arrives for G7 amid trade, political tensions
When US President Donald Trump last came to Canada for a G7 summit, the permanent image, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, was staring at him while he was looking at him.
If there is a common task at the G7 summit this year on Monday in Canada’s Rocky Mountains, it is the desire to minimize fireworks at the time of flammable tension.
The main issue is whether the Great Industrialized Countries Group cannot find a common position despite the significant differences between Washington and other members.
Canada’s new prime minister Mark Carney is hosting the event and the visit points to Trump’s first visit to Canada in his new era.
Among the leaders who are not part of the G7 but invited to the summit by Carney are the heads of India, Ukraine, Brazil, South Africa, South Korea, Australia, Mexico and UAE states. Avoiding tariffs will remain in mind.
In recent months, the US President has caused serious tensions with the North neighbor by implementing punishing tariffs and repeatedly demanding Canada to quit independence and to be a part of the United States. This led to widespread anger in Canada.
Trump also hit several dozen countries with serious tariffs that faced a global economic slowdown.
There is little progress in the establishment of wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and now there is a new and increasing conflict between Israel and Iran on the nuclear program of Tehran.
Add to all of them that continue to produce superiority and drowning in new technologies such as climate change, migration, drug trafficking, artificial intelligence, and China’s basic supply chains.
When asked if he planned to announce any trade agreement in the G7 while leaving the White House on Sunday, Trump said, “We have a trade agreements. All we have to do is send a letter, ‘This is what you have to pay’. But I think we will make a few new trade agreements.”
It may be the survival of the G7 at a time when the Trump administration sends mixed signals as to whether the President of the President will join the November 20 Summit group in South Africa.
What Trump opposed at the 2018 summit in Quebec focused on focusing on alliances with a series of common standards who wanted to shape policies.
Each of the German, England, Japanese and Italian governments believes that this year, a friendly relationship with Trump can reduce the likelihood of explosion.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer flew to Canada on Saturday, “I have a good relationship with President Trump and this is important.”
This year, there is no plan for a common statement from the G7, the Trump administration shows that there is no need to create a common consensus with other democracies if it sees new tariffs, more fossil fuel production and a less dependent European targets on the US army.
The White House remained a mother about the G7 for the G7, which emerged as a 1973 Finance Ministers Meeting to address the oil crisis and turned into an annual summit to develop personal relations between world leaders and to address global problems.
While Trump is looking at Carney on Monday, Carney will hold at least three planned bilateral meetings with other world leaders during the summit.
According to a administration official, the US president is expected to hold bilateral meetings with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
The Trump administration insisted that its extensive tariffs would make trade agreements that celebrate China, but it is unclear how trade partners want to strengthen their confidence in the United States.
Carney is clear, saying that his country can no longer look at the United States as a permanent friend.
This can leave Trump with a strange mission to want to keep his tariffs in place, while trying to convince Trump that they are doing better siding than the United States and China.
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