The official pictures of the G-8 and how they reflect world changes are revealing. On 23 June 2005 Condaleeza Rice appeared in London. Notice where she appears in the photograph although she is only a Secretary of State. She is front and center and highlighted. If you were to contrast Rice's position with the older G-8 photograph there are revealing differences. In the current G-8 summit a president attended yet he is not in the center power position. As a representative of a country that has been displaced from power he is off to the left. In a short amount of time the staged photographs are reflecting the relative positions of the attendees. Its unfortunate that the Chinese representative had to return home and attend to domestic affairs. It would have been even more revealing to see where his power position placed him.
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