US President Joe Biden and other G7 leaders announced a bid to rival China with global infrastructure projects to poor countries - Copyright AFP ISHARA S. KODIKARA Sebastian Smith The G7 group of rich democracies on Sunday announced an attempt to compete with China’s formidable Belt and Road Initiative by raising some $600 billion for global infrastructure programmes in poor countries. The Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment, unveiled with fanfare by US President Joe Biden and G7 allies from Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan and the European Union, aims to fill a huge gap left as communist China uses its...