The final Declaration remained short, a scandal could be avoided at the G7 summit in Biarritz. The cracks were covered, the tone remained polite, and Donald Trump raised hopes in the trade dispute with China.
Yet on Sunday it had looked as if could this G7 summit in a cloud of ill-will, disunity, and of failed communication. On the final day, but the plan of the U.S. President, the rudder around, after he had spread for two days of uncertainty about the trade war with China and its Position in the Iran crisis. Donald Trump waved the olive branch in the direction of Beijing and was the French President in his push to defuse the Iran crisis, at least for grant.
The President keeps the President in a good mood
Host Emmanuel Macron managed it with a lot of diplomacy to keep the U.S. President happy: We have worked well together, there was a lot of Conformity, there were extremely positive discussions. At the end of a sign of the unity of the summit. Therefore, both sides held to the side of a press conference where Donald Trump host a “remarkable political leaders” called and Macron praised the friendly cooperation with Trump about the clover.
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The content of Macron recorded primarily as a success that he got from Trump’s free to try for a rapprochement with Iran. The Frenchman wants to quit as co-signatories of the now-dysfunctional nuclear agreement, the escalation with the US, tensions in the Strait of Hormuz. That’s why he had invited the Iranian foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Saturday evening as a surprise guest to Biarritz. Trump responded initially reluctant to swing on Monday, suddenly on the wagon of a possible diplomatic rapprochement.
“We have established a track record,” said President Macron, if the circumstances are still pretty fragile. But he said that he got off the phone with President Rouhani, and under the right circumstances, willing to meet with Trump. Perhaps an agreement is possible, the G7 are at least in agreement that Iran should not get nuclear weapons and they wanted to find a solution.
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Signs of relaxation: the G7 summit in Biarritz finished
Amazingly, even President Trump said in a Meeting with Ruhani possible. He was concerned that Iran had no nuclear weapons and no ballistic missiles. You could quickly achieve with a new agreement – and under certain circumstances, the sanctions to be suspended. “You have to play,” added the US President; if not, you would encounter violence and opposition. He doesn’t want a regime change in Iran, this could not work. The French President, have worked in this issue is excellent, and then Donald Trump added: “I have good feelings for Iran,” he know a lot of great Iranians.
Trump also stated that he had been informed by Macron in advance of the Iran Coup, on the sidelines of the G7 summit. On Sunday, he’d want to still know nothing. Besides, Iran have great potential, what he attested to in the same breath, North Korea under Kim Jong-Un. Policy stringency does not belong to the Strengths of the US President.
Convergence in the trade dispute
Similarly positive, the two presidents also spoke about a possible ice melting in the trade dispute with China. You have discussed the subject long and was not agreed that the trade practices of China are about intellectual property, and Dumping fair, so Macron. They wanted to intensify Attempts to agree new rules for world trade. Apart from that, but the trade-creating war between the United States and China uncertainty for the world economy, and an agreement would be good for all.
Kiss the summit, Melania Trump with the canadian Prime Justin Trudeau (right: Donald Trump)
Donald Trump appeared at this point, the change-up, he had awakened on Sunday only seems that he regret the trade war with China, to shortly tell: it was a wrong interpretation, he regret to have not even higher tariffs against China, imposed. Everything pointed to the last round with the new duties on both sides hardened fronts. At the end of the G7 meeting, but the US President said: “I think they (China) want to make a Deal. The Deputy party boss came out that he wanted a Deal under quiet conditions. China has made our duties hard, and I think they want a Deal.”
France is also confident that the noise had responded to the new digital tax on Donald Trump with tariff threats against French wine, in 2020, could be settled by an international regime in the OECD-level. And the Chancellor conjured up in their face-to-face with the US President again, the trade talks with the EU over the customs clearance of manufactured goods again, in order to defuse the for months over the auto industry, floating customs threat. At least Trump said immediately no.
Disaster response instead of good results
Overall, this summit features, that it can be less to his concrete results measured. The success is that it is the clever directing of the host is able to prevent new outbreaks from pages of Trumps, and to open both at the world trade, as well as the Iran crisis, a window for negotiations. All know, however, that the incantations of Unity and good will at the G6+1 only as far as the good mood of the U.S. President persists.
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Contrary to his announcement that there would be no joint Declaration, came to the President of Macron in the end, however, with only one-sided paper: in it there is a commitment to the Reform of the world trade organization, there was agreement that Iran should not have nuclear weapons and peace and stability in the Region aspire to be value. In addition, there should be a summit on the Ukraine and a conference on Libya. And to be reminded of the demonstrations in Hong Kong, the Declaration of the British-Chinese agreement of 1984. Easier you can not make world policy. The US President contradicted in any case, none of these Statements.
Help for Amazon
The most remarkable fact in the case of the G7, agreed assistance for the deletion of the forest fires in the Amazon, neither the meagre sum of 20 million euros, and that it took me three days to decide, but that Donald Trump didn’t go to this session to climate change, protection of oceans and other environmental concerns was easy. The reason it were so, the G6, the decided to the Amazon-residents in the purchase of fire-fighting planes to help in the reforestation. In addition, there were environmental issues declarations of intent of the G6, which will be implemented in the individual countries and then to taste – or not.