Biden gets G-7 reset after victory on vaccines
President Joe Biden entered his first international summit looking for a breakthrough on vaccine pledges for low-income countries, a united front on China and to tee up his meeting this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It wasn’t perfect. But, for Biden, it was enough.
Biden left the United Kingdom on Sunday after a meeting with Group of Seven leaders.
Biden clamored for a crackdown on China before settling for a more modest condemnation, and emerged having quelled complaints about U.S. vaccine hoarding with a new donation.
The bloc fell short of its own vaccine goal — 613 million new doses pledged, instead of a billion — and the leaders are at odds over how explicitly their group should be trying to counter China. But Biden took the outcome and called it a win.
