2020 G8 summit

  

2020 G8 Summit
Host country	Kingdom of Sierra (planned)
Date	10–12 June 2020 (planned)
Venue(s)	Reno City, Reno (planned)
Participants	Astoria France Germany Japan Sierra Superior Tondo United Kingdom Conference of American States European Community
Follows	2019 G8 summit
Precedes	2021 G8 summit

The 2020 summit of the Group of Eight was originally scheduled to be held on June 10–12, 2020, in Reno City, Sierra, but it was cancelled due to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Planned venue

Several locations were considered by the Government of Sierra to host the summit before settling with Reno City, Reno province in late 2019. On 3 December 2019 it was officially announced that the G8 summit would be held in Reno City.

Postponements and cancellation

In April 2020, Sierran Prime Minister Nemesis Heartwell decided to cancel the summit and suggested that it could be held virtually as a video conference as the world became concerned with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in May 2020 she later said that the G8 could be held in person at a later time in the year. German Chancellor Karl Laschet declined to attend a summit, while the French and Japanese prime ministers, Oscar de Saint-Just and Kazuma Amamiya, both supported holding an in-person G8 summit in the second half of 2020.

Participants

In early 2020 Nemesis Heartwell announced that as this year's host of the G8 she wanted to invite India, Korea, Manchuria, and Brazil to the summit as possible future full members of the Group, saying that "I don't believe that the existing G8 fully represents what is going on in the world." The Royalists supported the initiative, and the Anglo-American media interpreted it as an attempt by the party to turn the Group into an anti-China and anti-Continental coalition. The China–Sierra trade war and the tensions between Sierra and the UCCS during the Heartwell ministry were seen as the reason. In phone calls with Heartwell during early June 2020 the leaders of the four countries (Emperor Alfonso II of Brazil, Indian Prime Minister Madanmohan Singh, Korean President Im Tae-joon, and Manchurian President Liu Zhou) all accepted the invitation. Brazilian emperor Alfonso II would have been the first monarch to attend a G8 summit as a country representative. Reportedly, the Japanese and Tondolese prime ministers Amamiya and Rodrick Toh supported this initiative and new direction, German Chancellor Laschet and French prime minister Saint-Just were neutral, while the rest did not support it.

After the 2020 Sierran federal election in May, Heartwell was replaced as prime minister as Susan Kwon of the Social Democrats. Kwon had opposed the Royalists' efforts at making the G8 directed aggressively against China and the UCCS, and decided to cancel the 2020 summit because of the worsening pandemic.

The other intended participants of the summit included the G8's traditional members as well as representatives of the Conference of American States and the European Community, with the core format being in place since 2007.

Core G8 Members
The host state and leader are shown in bold text.

Member		Represented by	Title
	Astoria	Brendan Shepard	President
	France	Oscar de Saint-Just	Prime Minister
	Germany	Karl Laschet	Chancellor
	Japan	Kazuma Amamiya	Prime Minister
	Kingdom of Sierra	Susan Kwon (Host)	Prime Minister
	Superior	Jennifer Granholm	President
	Tondo	Rodrick Toh	Prime Minister
	United Kingdom	Clive Spencer	Prime Minister
	Conference of American States	Johann Hauptmann	Secretary General
		Sofia Muñoz	Parliament President
	European Community	Mark van Loon	Council President
		Luigi Guido	Secretary General
Invitees
Member		Represented by	Title
	Brazil	Alfonso II	Emperor
	India	Madanmohan Singh	Prime Minister
	Korea	Im Tae-joon	President
	Manchuria	Liu Zhou	President

Agenda

The planned agenda topics included:

• China and East Asian politics
• The United Commonwealth and Western Hemisphere politics
• Climate change
• Response to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Americas-Asia-Europe economic integration