TOKYO (AP) — The Group of Eight nations, holding their annual summit in Japan starting Monday, have always been a club for the world’s biggest and brightest economies. Now a growing chorus is saying it’s time the clubhouse doors swing open to some newcomers.

Outsider China has eclipsed more than half the club’s members in economic size and the gross domestic product in Brazil is larger than Russia’s.

“When do they move from the G-8 to the G-13?”