arabia late the last time year which was a virtual summit. what you find in the covid-controlled environment and particularly the environment of the summit, there are lesser opportunities for leaders to ask questions of their leaders directly. that is just not happening. it does fall into a partner here and i think we are seeing at the g7, that you re getting a lot of sort of presummit messaging and messages that give you the idea in bones that the white house or downing street want you to have as the takeaways from the final communication. i think a few days after a summit like this you dig into it deeper and you can see the holes and where things have been glossed over. when i look at it, i m trying to
line between not wanting to give up on the massive trade that chinese chinee china has to offer china is europe s biggest trading partner so obviously wanting wanting to to macro in particular is spearheading a campaign for a unified front against not against china but toward chinese policy at the moment the you finding it hard to find that sort of collective position on a you and china policy and michael is spearheading that here so warm welcome but wariness behind that so he s got a complicated job in front of him given the the fractured state of. getting all twenty eight countries to speak with one voice to move in one direction on china. absolutely and we really don t know how it s going to go forward i mean this pre-summit is comes ahead of the e.u. china s summit in just a little over two weeks in brussels it was
and president obama at the summit. the largest gathering since 1945 and the founding of the united nations. sitting down with a handful of delegations today sent of state hillary clinton made the talk show rounds setting the stage for the conference tomorrow. we often say that the threat of nuclear war as we used to think about it for the coal war has actually decreased, but the threat of nuclear terrorism has increased. julie kirtz is live at the white house with the latest. hi, juliet. even before the summit fieshl gets underway, president obama saying he feels good about the sense of urgency he sees among all the world leaders gathering here in washington. today, pre-summit, the president held a series of one-on-one meetings with world leaders at blair house, across from the white house. talking with leaders of india and pakistan two countries with nuclear programs. it was during his session with the president of south africa, he spoke to reporters and
that huge influx of refugees in fact the treaty that was supposed to regulate the whole thing dublin essentially was suspended and has never come back fully into force now in other words it is very difficult to get that multilateral european solution that the chancellor is pushing for but a couple of factors might indicate some room for movement here number one we ve got different governments at the helm of a number of european countries than the ones we had in the past starting with italy now that is not an easy thing italy has a populist government has just turned away that boat full of refugees and said we re not taking any more but that means there may be some new negotiating dynamic here and as you mentioned the chancellor is now apparently looking toward a sort of pre-summit of affected countries that means the countries on the southern periphery of the e.u. in the x. journal border that have borne the brunt of this crisis in the past and potentially