Published: May 19th, 2023,
Last updated: May 19th, 2023
The G7 countries have long since lost their position as the leading economic powers. For some time now, India has had more economic power than Italy, Canada, and even the United Kingdom. China is number two, right after the US. When the G7 meet on Friday in Hiroshima, Japan, they will no longer be able to set the agenda in the way they could a few years ago. Instead, they are driven by the issues other powers set for them: Russia and China.