by Henry Rogers and Jake Adelstein The 2023 Hiroshima G7 summit ended yesterday against the backdrop of the first-ever city to be destroyed by an atomic bomb. The summit covered a wide array of ideas and policy initiatives from the war in Ukraine to the vulnerability of the global south. (memo: The Group of Seven,...
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