As leaders from the G7 group of seven industrialised nations – United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan – meet at a luxury seaside resort in Cornwall, their implicit message is that they stand as a bulwark of democracies... For the host nation UK, “shared values and open societies” are on top of the Foreign and Development Track for the ongoing summit. This is also the premise behind having four special invitees – India, Australia, South Korea and South Africa. In January, Bloomberg had first reported that the UK had proposed that the ‘guests’ sign an “Open Societies...