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May 31, 2020 Donald Trump has agreed to postpone the G7 he wanted to hold at the White House in late June after Chancellor Angela Merkel had refused his invitation to participate in person for the ongoing pandemic.

The American president in recent days had sponsored the summit as "the greatest example of the reopening" of America suggesting that it was held between the White House and Camp David, presidential residence in nearby Maryland, with the physical participation of the leaders and not in videoconferencing, a solution so far globally adopted for summits and summits at the time of the coronavirus and which at first had also been designed for the G7 in the year of the pandemic. 

Announcing that he will postpone the G7, Trump has announced that he also wants to invite Russia - suspended since 2014 for the annexation of Crimea - and other countries such as South Korea, Australia and India.

One of his advisers, writes the New York Times, explained that the idea is to unite traditional allies to discuss China, which has become a strategic rival country in the United States.

German Chancellor Merkel had rejected Trump's invitation to participate in the G7 at the end of June in the White House, "considering the overall pandemic situation". British Prime Minister Johnson immediately said yes. French President Macron and that of the European Council, Michel, would have gone if
health conditions had allowed it and if Angela Merkel had changed her mind. 

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte had not yet spoken out.