US President Donald Trump is reportedly exploring a new elite ‘C5’, or ‘Core Five’, forum of world powers that would bring together America, Russia, China, India and Japan, sidelining the existing Europe-dominated G7 and other traditional democracy and wealth based groupings.
While so far there has been no official word on the matter, American publication Politico reported that the idea for the new hard-power group came up in a longer, unpublished version of the National Security Strategy that the White House published last week.
The publication said it could not confirm the existence of the longer plan, but it was reported by Defense One.
The idea is reportedly to create a new body of major powers, one that isn’t hemmed in by the G7’s requirements that the countries be both wealthy and democratically governed.
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