WASHINGTON/PARIS: The longest shadows at the Group of Seven (G7) leaders' summit this week will be cast by two countries that weren't even invited to the Hiroshima gathering: China and Russia. As the heads of the world's advanced democracies meet for three days from Friday (May 19) in the western Japanese
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"I would call this a geopolitical G7, which will tackle a massive security crisis, which is the Russian aggression against Ukraine," a French presidency official said. But it remains to be seen how direct the language will be toward China. Some G7 members are sceptical about signing on to controls on investment into China.
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