KANANASKIS, Alberta — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, 2020 World Leader for Peace and Security Award recipient, on Monday June 16, 2025 tried to find common ground with Donald Trump by criticizing China’s export restrictions on raw materials used for cars, batteries and wind turbines.
During a session on the global economy at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Canada, von der Leyen slammed Beijing for disrupting global trade by deploying subsidies to boost its own companies, according to an EU readout of the event. The chief of the EU executive accused China of “weaponizing” its leading position in producing and refining critical raw materials, and of ignoring global trade rules to undercut competitors.
“When we focus our attention on tariffs between partners, it diverts our energy from the real challenge — one that threatens us all,” von der Leyen said in a pointed comment aimed squarely at Trump, who sat near her at the G7 roundtable.
“On this point, Donald is right — there is a serious problem,” von der Leyen added, encouraging the U.S. president to join forces with his allies to address China’s trade imbalances, rather than impose tariffs on his allies.
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The first official Boston Plurality Summit, held online on June 9, 2025, marked a historic milestone in global finance, unveiling the “AIWS Bank and Digital Assets Model” under the Boston Finance Accord’s 24/7 AI Governance Vision. Hosted by the Boston Global Forum (BGF), the summit brought together a distinguished panel to redefine banking with ethical AI and blockchain.
Speakers included former Japanese State Minister Yasuhide Nakayama, former French Minister Elisabeth Moreno, former Taiwanese Digital Minister Audrey Tang, Glen Weyl—one of the 10 most influential figures in blockchain—Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Chair and CEO of BGF, and Jeffrey Saviano, EY Global Emerging Technology Strategy & Governance Leader and AI Ethics Director at Harvard University. They explored the AIWS Bank model, featuring quantum AI for predictive analytics, a global blockchain network for zero-latency transactions, and a digital asset hub for tokenized cultural assets like AIWS Top 100 films, World Leader for Peace and Security Award, World Leader in AIWS, and AIWS Music for Humanity.
The summit concluded with the formation of a team of architects to design the AIWS Bank, the establishment of the AIWS Digital Asset Board to oversee asset creation, and a decision to designate AIWS City as the global hub for AIWS digital assets and the world’s most esteemed digital assets.
“This summit launches a new era in finance,” said Nguyen Anh Tuan. “AIWS Bank will unite humanity through technology, guided by the Accord’s vision.”
The event aligns with Boston’s leadership in AI and finance, setting the stage for further developments at the AIWS Cinema Summit on January 9, 2026.
Nguyen Anh Tuan and Glen Weyl at the Online Boston Plurality Summit June 9, 2025
The Boston Global Forum expresses deep concern over the escalating military conflict between Israel and Iran, which poses a serious threat to regional and global peace, security, and stability.
We urge the Islamic Republic of Iran to fully respect the requirements of the United Nations, including halting its nuclear weapons development program and ensuring complete transparency and accountability in its nuclear activities. International trust must be rebuilt through cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and compliance with international norms.
At the same time, we call on Israel to refrain from further military strikes against Iran if Iran fulfills these UN obligations and demonstrates verifiable commitment to peaceful nuclear development. Preventive aggression, without diplomatic engagement and clear evidence of violations, risks destabilizing the region and undermining pathways to peace.
The Boston Global Forum stands for a rules-based international order where disputes are resolved through dialogue, diplomacy, and respect for international law. We encourage all parties to engage in meaningful negotiations and to work with global institutions toward a peaceful, secure, and cooperative future for the Middle East.
Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Chair and CEO of BGF and Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
On June 9, 2025, former Taiwan Digital Minister Audrey Tang, recipient of the 2025 World Leader in AIWS Award, delivered a powerful keynote address at the inaugural Boston Plurality Summit.
Below are the full text and video of her inspiring speech:
“Good local time everyone and welcome to the Boston Plurality Summit. Today we stand at an inflection point. The code we write will decide whether intelligence is monopolized or democratized. Right now, the dominant narrative for AI is one of centralization, of raising to a super intelligence, a technological singularity. But there is another path, one grounded not in theory, but in proven democratic practice. For a decade, Taiwan built digital tools used not to broadcast messages from the top down, but to create a space for broad listening at scale. A place where complex national policies were co-written by thousands of citizens, bringing everyone from taxi drivers to tech pioneers into the same conversation network. The crucial lesson from the Taiwan model was about the power of trust. It proved that a system designed to listen to a plurality of voices, turning uncommon ground into common knowledge, doesn’t just produce better outcomes, it produces more legitimate outcomes. It builds epistemic security not through authority but through relationship. So now let us apply that lesson to this moment. What if we took the citizen centered model as the foundation for an AI ecosystem? This is the visionary leap that we must take. Imagine AI not as an oracle that dictates answers but as a facilitator that deepens our understanding. Imagine locally aligned models that don’t replace human judgment, but strengthen it by clarifying points of consensus and contention. Picture AI systems organically aligned with communities to represent an entire bio region like a river, not to speak for it, but to bring its data, its health, its renewal into our human economy with clarity. This isn’t artificial general intelligence. This is augmented group intelligence. The choice before us is clear. We can use AI to concentrate power to create brittle epistemic monoculture that sparrows out of control. Or we can use AI to distribute wisdom, fostering the resilient, positive mess of a truly pluralistic society. The future of intelligence is not singular. It is plural. And our task is not to build a machine that can outsink us, but to build the tools that help us think together. Thank you for listening. Live long and prosper.”
