Joshua W. Walker, Hidetoshi Azuma
Global Governance, East Asia
The G7 showed how provocations in Crimea and the South China Sea won’t work.
This year’s G7 summit in Ise-shima, Japan was full of spectacles worthy of arresting headlines, including U.S. President Barack Obama’s historic embrace of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima on May 27th. Prime Minister Abe as host has enjoyed a considerable boost for his efforts as host and now is confidently heading into an upper house election on July 10th. Like most international summits, however, what lies beyond the headlines are the agreements made among leaders even if not declared …read more
Source: The National Interest
