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    Wishful Thinking

    Jun 18, 2020 4 minutes
    By Dong Yifan & Sun Chenghao
    Copyedited by Madhusudan Chaubey

    U.S. President Donald Trump had expected to host the Group of Seven (G7) Summit in his Florida resort in late June. He tried but gave up due to disappointing response from the leaders of other member countries. In May, despite the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, Trump proposed a face-to-face leaders’ meeting instead of the previously planned online event. Also, he attempted to expand G7 to G11 by including Australia, the Republic of Korea (ROK), India and Russia.

    However, Trump’s proposal failed to gain support. German Chancellor Angela Merkel declined his invitation, citing the overall COVID-19 situation. French President Emmanuel Macron was open to travel to the U.S. “only

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