On June 9, local time, at the G7 summit in Canada, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel released a photo on Twitter and quickly spread all over the world. In the picture, U.S. President Trump sits in the middle, Merkel and his allies surround him, and Merkel forward leans forward with a questioning attack posture. Trump is indifferent to a tough stance. German media commented that if Merkel could publish this chart during the campaign, the support rate could skyrocket to 80%.
In fact, this picture precisely reflects the current G7's uncooperative state. As the leader of the G7, after the United States came to power, it has made everyone feel bad about letting its allies increase military spending. However, two things that he did before the Canadian G7 summit made allies fry:
First, impose steel and aluminum tariffs on all countries, including allies.
In order to fight a trade war with China and prevent allies from helping China, Trump freed its allies from the two-month tariff. Two months later, China’s trade war ended, and it began to enter into substantive negotiations. Trump anti-Ge After the attack, it no longer exempted the allies from taxation, so the contradictions between the two sides intensified and they began to enter the trade war situation.
Second, exit the Iran nuclear agreement.
The Iranian nuclear agreement was originally led by the Obama administration, which led the EU brothers, Britain, Germany and Germany and China and Russia to negotiate with Iran. After the agreement was reached, the European Union began a large investment in Iran and accepted Iran’s large orders. Now it’s just two Over the past year, the United States has quitted its repentance and ignored the interests of its allies. This made Britain, France and Germany very unhappy.
The G7 was held in this context. Therefore, before the meeting began, countries including Britain, France, Germany, and Canada prepared the “artillery shells” and prepared to bombard Trump at the meeting. To this end, Trump even said that he would give up G7 before the meeting. Although, finally, Trump went to participate, it was apparent that he had only walked through the court because half of the time he would fly away by taking a special plane on the grounds of attending the “Gint”.
before the meeting, French President Mark Long had also conducted an “intensive” contest with Trump. Not long ago, when Macron visited the United States, Trump was still a philanthropist. In order to express the friendship between the two countries and the two, Macron also gave Trump a sapling that represents friendship.
This time, however, Macron had used "Handshake" against Trump. Trump's hands were all gripped by Macron! It can be seen that this time the US allies want to treat Trump at the summit.
However, what about Trump? There is no pressure to "submit" to allies and the attitude is very firm. On June 9, local time, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau issued a joint communique at the G7 summit, saying that they will work together to combat trade protectionism. However, after seeing the news, Trump immediately launched shelling of Trudeau, saying that he had issued "false statements" and instructed the American representatives not to sign the joint communique. In addition, Trump criticized Trudeau and called Trudeau "weak and hypocritical." AFP directly described this as a strong insult, and the Western media's evaluation of the G7 summit was to end with a new threat of farce and trade war!