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ANALYSIS-Group of Seven fights irrelevance in new world order
• ForbesAs a result, world leaders decided in Pittsburgh last month that the larger Group of 20, which includes China, India and other big developing nations in addition to G7 countries, should become the premier forum for managing the global economy.
China seized on the Istanbul meeting to ram that point home in a commentary by the official Xinhua news agency.
One veteran G7 official, who declined to be named, remained sceptical.
"The moment you have to tell people you are still relevant, it's because you are not relevant," he said