Video: G8 Summit: India and China must be invited to the party While diplomats from the G8 countries might point out the group's prominent position in global trade, many people are starting to question its relevancy, says The Telegraph's Diplomatic Correspondent. There's certainly a lot on the agenda - there's Syria, there's the Iran election, there's the continuing crisis in the Eurozone, but it's easy to think, 'what is actually going to get done at the G8? Is anyone going to be paying much attention? "You've got the G20, you've got the G77, you've got BRICS - you've got all sorts of international groupings, and power is shifting away from the G8, that's clear," says Alex Spillius. The group comprises the eight main industrialised countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. "As China continues to rise, as India continues to rise - China's economy is already forecast to overtake America's - it's going to be more and more valid to ask whether the G8 should be a G9 or a G10," he says. The G8 leaders are meeting in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, on June 17-18.