Up close with Biden and Trump's top diplomats

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During the G7 foreign ministers meeting in Britain this week, state department officials showered us with “C-words” to describe the atmosphere.

“The phrases I heard throughout the day were about coherence, about collaboration, about co-operation,” said one.

“C-words abound,” agreed another, adding “consensus” and “convergence.”

So yes, they thought it went well. And after all, why wouldn’t it?

What better platform than a gathering of the world’s richest democracies to showcase the core of President Joe Biden’s foreign policy: an aggressive multilateralism with “like-minded” countries to combat global threats such as pandemics and climate change. And