This weekend’s G7 summit is unlikely to produce a joint communique amid deepening divisions between the world’s seven richest nations over everything from Brexit to trade, climate change, and how to deal with China, Iran, and Russia. 

It will be the first time the forum of leading economies has failed to produce a statement of common intention and agreement since it began as the Group of Five in 1975, in the latest blow to the post-Cold War consensus of free trade, democracy, and globalisation that it once represented. 

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