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June 14, 2021Biden's goal at the G7?
or is the front of the Western democracies not so compact and enthusiastic about the idea of a new cold war with China?
After Caribis Bay, Brussels, the confrontation shifts to NATO, while a government without Netanyahu is born in Israel
Wall Street Journal
Bidens crown their journey with a visit to the queen
New coalition overthrows Netanyahu, Israel has a new government
Warning from G7 leaders in Beijing on human rights violations
President Biden appears to have made some modest progress during the weekend meeting of G-7 leaders in his effort to rally a united front against China's violations of global norms. And we mean modest. Mr. Biden has often criticized Donald Trump's Chinese policy for not involving allies, and he was right. China practices the politics of divide and rule internationally, and Chinese mercantilism is best countered by an alliance of democracies that can prove to Beijing that it cannot play against each other. The Trump administration has managed to do this in the case of Huawei, if not on other commercial matters. But the weakness of "multilateralism" is that it requires unity of purpose which often leads to the lowest common denominator.European leaders are reluctant to jeopardize their exports to China with too strong a stance.
Welt
G7 countries harshly criticize China and Russia.
In Cornwall, US President Joe Biden's main goal was to create a transatlantic coalition that resolutely opposes China's hegemonic drive. Biden paid an advance for it. He is ready to negotiate the ten-year dispute over Airbus-Boeing aid with the EU. He also leaves aside the protective tariffs imposed on steel and aluminum by his predecessor Donald Trump. And despite heavy pressure from the US Congress, Biden is ready to give up sanctions against the operating company of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Will the Europeans thank him and join the common fight against China? For Biden the historic opportunity is given by the now near end of the Merkel era, because the chancellor is very skeptical aboutaccentuation of the logic of blocs in a new cold war.
La Croix
Joe Biden, the federator
after the G7 summit, the American president continues his visit to Europe until Thursday. He wants to unite democracies in an alliance against China and Russia
Vaccine donations, support for developing countries, climate policies. Faced with this offensive by democracies, China responded on Friday asking not to politicize the pandemic crisis. The G7 "is not a hostile club to China," Macron insisted in the final press conference of the summit. "We are ready to work with China on climate, trade or development," he said. "But it is an economic competitor and a power with which we have fundamental disagreements on human rights."
Les Echos
The 'yes, but' of the Europeans in Biden facing China
Between firmness and a conciliatory attitude, the path of Western democracies is becoming increasingly narrow. The G7 referred to a vast infrastructure plan to help developing countries and poor countries, a project which, implicitly, wants to be an alternative to China's "Silk Road". However, the Europeans intend to maintain some independence vis-à-vis Washington, according to a senior American official in Carbis Bay. Germany is reluctant. Europe therefore walks on eggshells. Faced with Western pressure, China on Thursday equipped itself with a legal arsenal that legalizes reprisals in the event of foreign sanctions against Chinese individuals or entities, with "the closure, seizure and freezing of assets"of individuals or companies applying sanctions against China.
Le Figaro
China Russia Turkey. NATO tries to reinvent itself in the face of global dangers
Europeans reluctant to make the Atlantic Alliance a tool against Chinese ambitions as Biden hopes
Published: Two years after Emmanuel Macron diagnosed his 'brain death', NATO faces an existential choice. Joe Biden wants to give it a new region of being, make it an instrument of systemic rivalry with China. Joe Biden finds it natural to enlist European allies in this new cold war. Most of them are reluctant, and not just so as not to lose the lucrative Chinese market. Isn't Asia a little too far away for Europe, its interests and its projection capacity? An alliance to defend Taiwan or carry out police operations in the China Sea should encompass Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea… and become the armed wing of democracies Biden longed for. A logic of blocks pushed to extremes,which would sound the word to globalization.
SZ
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has been repeating for weeks that the summit should open "a new chapter". It is certain that the 30 heads of state and government will give the order to develop a new strategic concept. It should be ready by 2022 and prepare NATO for the next decade, that of "global competition". In the current strategic concept of 2010, Russia was still seen as a potential partner. The situation changed dramatically after the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014. While the US is pushing for Beijing's actions to be clearly criticized and included in the final declaration as a threat to Atlantic values, some Europeans hesitate:they do not want to bring China into play in order to continue trading and make Beijing a partner in climate protection. According to Stoltenberg, the expansion of NATO's operational area is not in question: "China is getting closer to us, it is investing in our critical infrastructures, for example". Even under Biden, the topic of money remains topical. Like Trump, Biden will remind Canada and Europeans that in 2014 they promised to put 2% of their GDP into defense by 2024. Current statistics show that ten NATO members will reach this target by 2021. Germany is at 19. Place with 1.53%is investing in our critical infrastructure, for example. "Even under Biden, the topic of money remains topical. Like Trump, Biden will remind Canada and Europeans that in 2014 they promised to put 2% of their GDP into defense by the end of 2014. 2024. Current statistics show that ten NATO members will reach this target by 2021. Germany is in 19th place with 1.53%is investing in our critical infrastructure, for example. "Even under Biden, the topic of money remains topical. Like Trump, Biden will remind Canada and Europeans that in 2014 they promised to put 2% of their GDP into defense by the end of 2014. 2024. Current statistics show that ten NATO members will reach this target by 2021. Germany is in 19th place with 1.53%
FAZ
from G7 countries strong criticism of China and Russia
published: democracies still have a long way to go
The investment offensive in the poorest countries is perhaps the most important result of this G-7 summit. But it is not yet an alternative Silk Road project. Trump's successor strengthened the democratic world's sense of unity. But Brexit caused damage and left a deep mistrust, especially between the two European nuclear powers. In the G7 negotiations on vaccines, climate protection and foreign policy, not all went smoothly for host Boris Johnson. His meeting with Emmanuel Macron, in particular, created a bad mood. Johnson asked Macron how he would feel if French courts prevented the delivery of sausages from Toulouse to Paris. This "is not a good comparison", Macron would have replied, "because Toulouse and Paris are parts of the same country!". And Johnson:some in the EU "seem not to understand that the UK is one country".
Daily Telegraph
Macron lashes out at Johnson in trade litigation at the end of the G7 Emmanuel Macron said Boris Johnson was "well aware" of the "inconsistencies" in Northern Ireland's protocol when he signed it, while the sausage war yesterday took place. it is thorough.
A last effort for freedom, the premier's exhortation. Boris Johnson is about to encourage the British to accept "one last effort" towards freedom and delaying the last step of the reopening after the lockdown. The prime minister last night honed his plan to postpone the June 21 reopening in England for up to four weeks.
The Guardian
Delay easing could keep thousands out of hospital
Ministers were told that a four-week delay to loosen all Covid restrictions would likely avoid thousands of hospitalizations, as Boris Johnson prepares to tell the British public they will have to. wait until another month for "freedom day". The calendar will be postponed for two to four weeks due to a rapid increase in cases of the Delta or Indian variant, which now make up over 90% of new infections. Public health officials are concerned about the variant because it partially evades vaccines, is at least 40% more transmissible than the Alpha variant first detected in Kent, and appears to double the risk of hospitalization.
New York Times
In Israel, a fragile coalition pushes Netanyahu out of office as prime minister. The longest-
serving prime minister
in the country's history leaves
Liberation
Netanyah out
After 12 years in power and a shift to the right of the country, Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu yesterday had to give up power, beaten by a heterogeneous coalition whose only glue is get her out of the picture. It is the end of an era that has exacerbated tensions in the Middle East. Willing to do anything to stay in his post, whether flattered or vilified, the most enduring prime minister in Israel's history has largely benefited from the country's growth, which he initiated.
Succeeding Benjamin Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett, who often refers to his time in the military and serving in Sayeret Matkal, the most prestigious unit of Israel's special forces, finds himself perhaps in the position he prefers: alone, demonstrating his courage. Her Jewish American parents arrived in Israel in 1967, a month after the Six Day War. Influenced by the civil rights movement, they are part of a generation that adapts this discourse to colonization. They are not ultra-Orthodox, who reject the external world considered harmful and isolate themselves from the rest of society, but so-called "modern" Orthodox, who want to live in step with the times. "In this current, Jews must have a certain degree of individual autonomy in the interpretation of tradition,unlike those who think that only conservative rabbinic interpretations are legitimate, "explains Ofer Zalzberg, director of a Middle Eastern think tank.
Die Presse
The end of the Netanyahu era
For some, the party started on Saturday night. "Bye bye, Bibi, bye bye" read on posters outside the Balfour Street residence of Israel's still Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem. In front of the house, the demonstrators danced, sang, played. Last night it became official: Netanyahu is no longer prime minister.
Haaretz
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Opposition Leader Benjamin Netabyahu
The Knesset voted 60 to 59 in favor of the birth of Israel's 36th government.
Anshel Pfeffer: In the end, Netanyahu was dethroned. The new executive is a set of impossible combinations. On the day of the end of the Netanyahu era, the ministers of the outgoing government did not hide their hatred of Bennett, the traitor in the courtroom. Center-left parties have had to pay a heavy price for getting Netanyahu out of Balfour. The most important departments are in the hands of the right, but there are still some key issues that could enable major changes and offer opportunities for left forces and the United Arab List
Israel Hayom
Prime Minister Bennett: We will work for all of you
Opposition leader Netanyahu: We will be back very soon
A Bennett-Lapid-Abbas government in no way reflects the will of the voters expressed on March 23, but we have no choice but to hope for an orderly transfer of power.
Jerusalem Post
Bennett swears as prime minister: it's time to heal the country
"We will do everything possible so that no one has to be afraid. We are here in the name of good and to work. And I say to those who intend to celebrate tonight, do not dance about pain of others. We are not enemies; we are a people. " In the speech, Bennett said his government will prevent the nuclearization of Iran and will not allow rockets to be fired at Israeli citizens from the Gaza Strip. Bennett thanked the administration of US President Joe Biden for its support during the war in Gaza and pledged to maintain bipartisan support in the United States.
Bennett began his speech by praising outgoing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his hard work over the years for the State of Israel and his wife, Sara, for his dedication. The new government will take unprecedented measures to reach the Arab sector of the population, he promised. Lapid canceled his scheduled speech and simply said the Likud MPs' behavior reminded him and all citizens of Israel why it was so important to replace them in government.