Global plan for the prevention of future pandemics, a plan on infrastructures for low-income countries, these are just two of the main cornerstones of the strategy launched by the G7 countries to establish itself in the world trying to counter, as far as possible, the initiative of the New Chinese Silk Road. To reinforce the new policy, the pushed multilateralism announced several times by the Biden administration. To give a small "reasoned" slowdown to the declared adversity of the US, England and Canada towards Beijing, there is the not particularly riotous reaction of the Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Italian premier Mario Draghi.
Angela Merkel and Mario Draghi argue for caution trying to distinguish between the areas of confrontation with the giant of the East, those of "competition" and those in which (from the battle over the climate to commercial interests) cooperation appears as sensible as it is necessary. Biden, on the other hand, with the flag of the violation of human rights with the relaunch of the denunciation of the persecution of Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang, up to the generality of the economic dossiers, will be able to breach in explicit terms, beyond the common adhesion to the 'Build Back Better World (B3W)' initiative, conceived by the US to compete in a more structured way with the Chinese Silk Road. "It's not about - on the other hand, the White House itself explains - to impose on these countries a dry choice between us and China. But yes, to offer an alternative vision and approach”Compared to Beijing or even Vladimir Putin's Russia, with which Biden will have a first high-tension meeting next Wednesday in Geneva.
The second day of the British presidency summit, hosted by Johnson in Carbis Bay, closes with a full agreement on the formalization of a planetary anti-pandemic strategy. An action program - launched in the first session of the meeting extended to guest leaders from Australia, South Korea, India and South Africa, as well as UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and WHO number one Tedros Ghebreyesus - which accompanies the 'announced donation by mid 2022 of one billion anti-Covid vaccines (of which 500 million from the US and 100 million from the UK), to be allocated to the poorest nations, the commitment to close sharing of collective health data; the one for the creation of "a pandemic radar"Able to identify variants of viruses through an increase in tests on human genomes. Full support for "a reform and strengthening of the role of the WHO ", in addition to the common bet on the possibility of shortening in the near future the research times for the development of vaccines from at least 300 days to no more than 100. Promises and hopes that in Johnson's rhetoric reflect "a historical moment", despite the shadow that the umpteenth conflict between his government and the EU on the post-Brexit also indirectly reflects on the summit.
