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Biden to put focus on China, pandemic and economic recovery at G7 talks
- US president will discuss tackling economic challenges such as those posed by China at the virtual summit, White House says
- Analyst expects rivalry to intensify as Washington seeks to rally its allies to counter Beijing
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Dealing with the China challenge will be among the key issues for discussion when Joe Biden joins leaders of the Group of Seven nations for virtual talks on Friday, his first multilateral summit as US president.
Biden will also focus on the international response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the world economy during the meeting, the White House said in a statement on Sunday.
Discussion of global economic recovery would include “the importance of all industrialised countries maintaining economic support for the recovery and collective measures to build back better”, the statement said.
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“President Biden will also discuss the need to make investments to strengthen our collective competitiveness and the importance of updating global rules to tackle economic challenges such as those posed by China.”
It will be the first time the leaders of the G7 industrialised nations have met since April.
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Biden has indicated that he will take a starkly different approach to his predecessor Donald Trump, who pulled the United States out of the World Health Organization and did not join the Covax Facility to distribute Covid-19 vaccines in less developed nations – decisions the Biden administration has reversed.
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