The group, which would also include China, India and Japan, was reportedly outlined in Washington\u2019s longer security strategy draft<\/p>\n
The US is secretly planning to create a five-nation power bloc with Russia, China, India and Japan to sideline the Western-dominated G7, several media outlets have reported.
\nThe idea was reportedly outlined in a longer unpublished draft of the US National Security Strategy released by the administration of President Donald Trump last week. According to the Defense One news portal, that version circulated before the White House published the unclassified document and reportedly proposed a new group, dubbed the \u2018Core 5\u2019, as a forum for dialogue among major powers outside the G7 framework.
\nUnder the reported plan, the five-nation format would hold regular summits, similar to the G7, each focused on a specific theme, with Middle East security \u2013 and the normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia in particular \u2013 said to be first on the agenda.
\nThe unpublished version reportedly lays out plans to downgrade Washington\u2019s role in Europe\u2019s defense, push NATO toward a tougher \u201cburden-sharing\u201d model and focus instead on bilateral ties with EU governments seen as closer to the US outlook, such as Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland.<\/p>\n
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Russia not seeking to rejoin G7 \u2013 Putin<\/p>\n
According to Politico, White House spokesperson Anna Kelly insisted that \u201cno alternative, private, or classified version exists\u201d beyond the official 33-page plan.
\nThe Kremlin has said it has seen no official statements from Washington on the reported plan, adding that such claims should be treated with skepticism.
\nThe reports come against the backdrop of long-running arguments about Russia\u2019s place in existing Western-led groups. In 1998, the G7 (the US, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan) was expanded to include Russia, but Moscow\u2019s membership was suspended in 2014 after Crimea\u2019s reunification with Russia. Trump has repeatedly said that removing Russia from the group was a \u201cbig mistake\u201d and that had Moscow remained at the table the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022 might have been prevented.
\nPresident Vladimir Putin said in an interview with India Today this month that Russia has no plans to rejoin the G7, noting the group\u2019s significance continues to dwindle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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