US EditionTrump’s Rift With Allies Is Even Deeper as G7 Begins
- President Donald Trump arrived in Alberta, Canada, on June 15, 2025, to attend the 50th G7 summit in Kananaskis.
- The summit comes amid ongoing tensions stemming from Trump's 2018 push to reinstate Russia in the G7 after it was excluded for illegally annexing Ukrainian territory in 2014.
- Leaders face disputes over trade policies, the Ukraine war with expected attendance by President Zelenskyy, and recent Middle East hostilities involving Israel and Iran.
- Trump's trade adviser promised '90 deals in 90 days,' with the president facing an early July deadline to secure agreements amid escalating tariffs.
- The summit's deep divisions led Canada to scrap the traditional joint communiqué, signaling strained global partnerships and uncertain conflict resolutions.
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A Biden government official once defined the G-7 — made up of the United States, Canada, Italy, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan — as a “leading committee for the world’s most advanced democracies.” But the summit that begins on June 15 in Alberta, Canada is unlikely to produce such ambitious statements. Instead of the friendly meetings of other years, this summit seems more like a final attempt to find common ground in a world wher…
The G7 Group sees itself as a community of values of Western democracies. But now Trump is back, and the common values are no longer well placed. The potential for conflict is great.
Trump’s Rift With Allies Is Even Deeper as G7 Begins
“When President Trump last attended a Group of 7 meeting in Canada, he was in many ways the odd man out,” the New York Times reports.“At that meeting, in 2018, Mr. Trump called for the alliance of Western countries to embrace Russia, antagonized allies and ultimately stormed out of the sum
Trump Returns to G-7 He Once Loathed as Iran Crisis Intensifies
(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump arrives in Canada as the center of attention for a Group of Seven summit of world leaders whose main purpose will be to mollify him — and one where spiraling conflict in the Middle East offers another test of its unity.
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