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No one’s talking snub now as grand alliance surfaces
Boris Johnson’s gatecrashing of Scott Morrison’s and Joe Biden’s G7 meeting has turned out to be probably the most important trilateral gathering for Australia in 70 years.
Phillip CooreyPolitical editorWhen British Prime Minister Boris Johnson “gatecrashed” a planned one-on-one meeting between Scott Morrison and US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Cornwall in June, there was a pile-on from Labor and Morrison’s many other detractors.
The optics of Johnson being added at the last minute to what was expected to be the first bilateral meeting between Morrison and Biden was widely interpreted as a Biden snub because Morrison had been too close to Donald Trump and because Australia was a laggard on climate change.
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