I could not stop myself from commenting on the global show that is being premiered currently on the British stage. It could be summarized as follows: The G7 are the actors on the stage. They have been known as the great, rich nations. They, however, developed their name to be the great, rich economies and, in some cases, the great richest seven nations. They have finally opted for the name the richest democracies in the world or the biggest democracies in the world. The questions that have never been asked or answered are why they do not add the word “Western” to the name! Better, say Anglo-Saxon? Or the Western allies of the US? The Group of Seven are America, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and Italy. They constitute 40% of the worlds’ GDP and 10% of the world’s population.
The question is, where is China and Russia from all that?
We also saw how Biden announced, alongside Pfizer’s CEO, the partnership between the summit, coronavirus, and economy. Biden hailed Pfizer’s CEO; standing next to him, the American technology; and the generosity, spirit, and humanity of the pharmaceutical factories workers, who sacrificed themselves to save people’s lives around the world. He added that America, in partnership with Pfizer, would buy (from the latter’s factories) half a billion doses and donate them to the world's poorer countries. The world he was speaking about had a vaccination rate of 85% in rich countries in contrast to 3% in poor countries.
It is all about the economy, ladies and gentlemen, not the coronavirus nor humanity. The compassionate America will lead you all, without discrimination or conditions! It is the trillions, not even billions, which American companies have made and will make, along with other G7 countries, which this humanitarian project aims at, and which, by chance of course, will lead to a prosperity rate in the American economy of more than 6%, according to Biden himself.
When I said from the beginning that it was necessary to make vaccination mandatory to all humans, I asked that this task would be entrusted to the World Health Organization. Why did Biden decide that it should be a donation from him to the poor countries? Is it out of tenderness and love from the G7 summit? Is there a decision to divide the world into givers and needy? Is this the future of the world? And where are the Chinese and Russian vaccines from all this? We all know that the coronavirus will never end unless all humans have been vaccinated. 2022 has been set as a deadline for that.
President Biden surprised me as he kept repeating the number half a billion, which represented a small fraction only of the world's population. Why did President Biden not address how much money these doses would generate for American factories and others? It is pleasant that human aspects intertwine with private interests. The same is the case with the (democratic) countries, which are by chance the Western countries. The attendees of the summit forgot that the oldest and largest "democracy in the world is India, whose population is close to the sum of the citizens of the great seven nations combined." The attendees of the summit also forgot the non-western Chinese and Russian economies.
We will see more of Biden’s American leadership, in implementation of his slogan "America is back" to lead the world, rather than Trump's "America First" slogan. I say this because I can see that the aim of this summit is to strengthen the ranks of the Western alliance, led by America, in the face of China and Russia, specifically the “Belt and Road” initiative. It is a tough job because of the American-European differences.
Finally, the great seven countries, led by America and Britain, have devised a plan to get out of their stifling economic crisis through the vaccines’ deal, which they own its factories, at the expense of further deterioration in the economy of the whole world. There will be winners and losers in the plan by the time it achieves its goals, even if it is wrapped with the so-called human spirit. The world has no option but to implement this plan, realize its dimensions, and work to confront its economic repercussions. I mentioned the economic aspect only because we are helpless except in this field and because that is the appropriate and right thing to do.
See you again in other deals of the century, you Arab, non-Western world, that is dear to the Western G7.