* Biden spoke to reporters about the origins of COVID-19
* He said investigators must determine whether COVID-19 evolved in nature or 'whether it was an experiment gone awry in the laboratory'
* Leaders negotiated for days on a special communique
* It will allow a World Trade Organization labeling of China as a 'non-market economy'
* It called attention to human rights and pointed to Xinjiang
* Also mentions Hong Kong autonomy
* Some world leaders were hesitant to do so out of concern for antagonizing China
* Beijing is already hitting back at decisions by a 'small group of countries' President Joe Biden on Sunday said he wants 'transparency' in an international probe that will look into whether coronavirus had a natural origin or leaked from a Wuhan lab – as G7 nations issued a formal communique calling for the probe.
The president, who has ordered his own intelligence review of the origins of COVID-19, called on China to cooperate with the Phase 2 investigation by the World Health Orgnization.
Biden said it was important to get access to uncover 'whether or not this was a consequence of a from the marketplace of bat interfacing with animals in the environment that caused this COVID-19, or whether it was an experiment gone awry in the laboratory.'
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Update #1: G-7 nations call for thorough probe of Covid origins in China (Politico)
Update #2: G7 calls for new study into origins of Covid and voices concern on China (CNN) W
NU Editor: This declaration is going to go nowhere.
5 comments:
Hey hey WNU! These are serious...serious...ah. Hmmm. Well whatever they are they're serious.
A little late
G7 never goes somewhere
It is the G7 and yet there are 9 people at the table!
If Van Der Lay'in is there, why are Macron, Merkel and Draghi are there?
What is the point? Efficiency? Full White collar employment? To see how many level of government you can stack up without collapse?
G7 is what? The major NATO leading countries plus Japan?
GDP (USD Billion)
1,397 Australia
1,647 South Korea
1,736 Canada
1,840 Brasil
2,001 Italy
2,716 France
2,829 UK
2,869 India
3,846 Germany
6,082 South Korea
21,433 USA
If It is NATO plus Japan, that is very conventional thinking. Very in the box. Narrow minded. Blinkered. Bigoted.
Why not dump Canada and add in a real country like Australia? Both Canada and Australia were crown possessions, but Australia is so far away in a rougher neighborhood that they actually had to put on big boy pants. Trudeau does not put on big boy pants. He puts on black face. More than once.
I think not adding Australia, South Korea, Brasil and India is a serious mistake.
Is the G7 a re whiteboy's club? Is that why they don't invite South Korea. Japan has such a big economy plus they got grandfathered in, so they keep getting invitations?
I think Jac is onto something. The G7 meeting is for world leaders to look important back home in the press and log some travel time. It is a junket.
G7
Member states and key leaders:
United States President Joe Biden
United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
France President Emmanuel Macron
Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel
Italy Prime Minister Mario Draghi
Japan Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide
European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
Council President Charles Michel
Ursula has a sweet gig. From Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth to Minister of Defense (#FAil) to President of the European Commission
That is like losing one battle after another and subsequently being made of the head of Joint Chiefs of Staff
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