Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blanks out of the given alternatives.

The host of the G7 summit, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who aims to present post-Brexit Britain as a globally active opinion leader, has invited other big __________(1) such as India, South Africa, Australia and South Korea as guests. He envisages a new "alliance of democratic states."
Biden's China blacklist is about 'security and values'
But political analyst Jana Puglierin, the head of the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations, told that Biden could not expect to _________(2) a solid "alliance against China" during this trip.

"It will be a balancing act," she said, pointing out that France and Germany had their own ideas and were both willing to cooperate with Beijing on the economy and the climate crisis. Even though the EU has imposed sanctions on certain Chinese citizens in reaction to the ________(3) of the Uyghur minority in China, she said, it had not been as clear as the US in its condemnation of the situation in Hong Kong.

Puglierin added that for Biden it was particularly important that by the end of the summits, the West had made a clear commitment to more investment in order to ________(4) China's influence in Africa and Eastern Europe. "The idea is that a kind of global infrastructure partnership should emerge from the G7 summit with emerging economies so that they can become greener," she said. "This could be an alternative to the 'Belt and Road Initiative' without it being said that China should be contained." The US also wants NATO to deal more with military threats from China without losing sight of Russia as the main ________(5) in Europe.