De facto, the G7 has become the Situation Room in the West’s pushback against what it sees as the military aggression and economic coercion of others and the threats to its economic and technological primacy. The 14 June 2024 G7 Leaders Statement bears this out. Here the focus is on the implications for trade tensions, highlighting a perceptible hardening in Western position and a regrettable further weakening in the predisposition to follow WTO rules. In turn, this presages further trade disruption and discord.