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What does Rishi want from the G7 in Hiroshima?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak is in Hiroshima for the G7 summit. President Zelensky has said he'll be making a surprise appearance, and Sunak will be meeting with President Modi on the sidelines. What does Sunak want from the trip? 

Max Jeffery speaks to James Heale and Isabel Hardman.

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0:00.0

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0:19.6

Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots, the spectator's daily politics podcast.

0:23.9

I'm Max Jeffrey and I'm joined by James Hill and Isabelle Hardman.

0:28.5

Rishi Sunak is at the G7 summit. James, can you tell us what's the agenda?

0:33.0

Yeah, sure. Well, it tends to be at the moment the security focus, which is really

0:36.8

looming large over these G7 summits. So, Russia, the most explicit element of this,

0:42.0

so it's about keeping up the pressure on Russia in terms of sanctions and ensuring

0:45.7

Ukraine gets the weaponry it needs in its fight. But also the elephant in the room,

0:49.6

less explicit is always China with these things. So, yesterday, Japan and the UK signed a new deal,

0:55.0

the Hiroshima record, which talked about defence, and also crucially, seven conductors as well.

1:00.0

And that's because, obviously, China is threatening to have war in Taiwan.

1:05.6

And Taiwan has about six percent of the world's silicon chips made there.

1:10.2

As a result, therefore, obviously all the Western countries are very much more conscious about

1:13.4

their chips. And so, really, I think, although Russia is the explicit threat on the agenda,

1:18.0

China is there in the background too. Also, there's a number of kind of domestic considerations

1:22.4

for Russia, and UK-focused considerations. And top of them will be meeting Modi of India this weekend,

1:30.3

and discussions about having a free trade deal with India. This is something that Boris Johnson

1:35.1

and Liz Truss, let's trust once we won by Devali. But obviously, there's a huge number of

1:38.4

things to consider on this, not least because, obviously, the UK wants the money from India,

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