Good morning. Welcome to Axia's Today. It's Monday, June 14th. I'm Nailibu. Here's how we're making you smarter today. Israel without BB Netanyahu in power.

Plus, how the pandemic is still messing up everyone's plans. A first, style over substance at the G7 is today's one big thing.

The G7 summit, a meeting of some of the world's wealthiest democracies wrapped up yesterday in Cornwall, England.

Axia's world editor, Dave Lawler, is here with his analysis. Good morning, Dave. Good morning, Nailibu.

Dave, so the pandemic's the immediate pressing problem here. What's the latest on the US's global vaccine pledge?

Right. So Biden came into the summit promising 500 million Pfizer doses that the US would buy and donate with developing countries.

He said he would use that pledge to get his G7 partners to kick into. There were reports that they were aiming for a billion doses.

And they did, in fact, say in the final communique that they were going to be contributing a billion doses.

But if you look at the math there, actually, I'm not sure it all adds up to a billion doses. It says it another time, 870 million.

And so basically the UN and others have looked at that and said, even if it is a billion doses, this is over the course of a year.

And that's sort of a fraction of the global needs. Were there any steps taken towards climate change?

It's different having Biden at the table as opposed to Trump here because you did get sort of strong common statements about the importance of tackling climate change.

But again, we didn't get any new initiatives, no big commitments made from any of these countries about slashing emissions further than they promised previously.

So again, really strong statements on the style, but not a ton of substance came out of it.

With all of these democracies, what was the stance on China?

So here you did see an interesting development, which is that some of these countries have been more reluctant in the past to make strong statements on China.

But we did get a joint statement that addressed things like Hong Kong, the genocide in Xinjiang, Taiwan security.

And also you got this idea of a G7 infrastructure fund to counter China's global belt and road infrastructure initiative.

So this is very much a preliminary step, but further than past statements when these groups get together had gone on China.

Dave, before the summit, you wrote America's back at the table, which is how President Biden summed up this weekend's events.

But then you asked the big question, now what? So can I pose that to you?

I don't think we got a very satisfactory answer there, Nila.

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