Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, European Council President Charles Michel, US President Joe Biden, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi, French President Emmanuel Macron, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pose for a group photo at the G7 summit, in Carbis Bay, Britain, June 11, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
LONDON, June 16 (China Daily/ANN) - When United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson traveled from London to Cornwall to usher in a "better, fairer, greener" future at the G7 summit over the weekend, he did so by airplane.
The irony of talking about climate change after burning through aviation fuel on a short-haul domestic flight was not lost on observers on social media. Now that the summit is over, the well-publicized image of Johnson emerging from a chartered jet at Newquay Airport may be seen as demonstrative of what observers described as a wider hypocrisy that typified the event.
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