G7 is the group of the seven largest industrialized countries. These include the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada.
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China reacted angrily on Tuesday to the plans of US President Donald Trump to invite India, Russia, Australia and South Korea to the G7 summit. All attempts to form a “small circle” against Beijing are “doomed to fail” and “doomed to fail”. unpopular”.
G7 is the group of the seven largest industrialized countries. These include the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada.
The leaders of these countries meet annually to discuss global governance issues, including climate change, security, and the economy.
Trump postponed the G7 summit to September and expressed his desire to extend the “outdated” bloc to G10 or G11, including India and three other nations, to bring together the world’s top economies.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian asked about his response to Trump’s plans to invite India and three other nations to the G7 summit. Promotion of world peace and development. ”
“We believe this is the role of the vast majority of the countries in the world. Any attempt to seek a small circle against China is doomed and unpopular,” he said.
Trump’s invitation to India and three other nations is troubling here, especially at a time when he’s trying to isolate Beijing through a number of measures, including withdrawing special status to Hong Kong in response to the new Chinese security law for U.S. alumni British colony that restricted Chinese undergraduate students and pulled the United States out of the World Health Organization to highlight its ties to China.
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Trump is also aggressively pushing to decouple China from global supply chains, which could damage the world’s second largest economy in the long run.
Tensions between the United States and China are escalating due to the coronavirus pandemic. America accuses Beijing of not providing timely information about the disease and calls for an investigation into the origins of the virus. However, China has rejected all US allegations of covering up the COVID 19 outbreak.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the COVID-19 infected over 6.2 million people and claimed more than 375,000 lives worldwide. The United States is the most affected country in the world, with more than 1.7 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and over 105,000 deaths.
The United States currently holds the annual presidency of the G7 countries. In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, there were discussions that the summit should be held virtually. However, Trump had suggested holding it in person.
During the summit, the G7 president typically invites heads of state of one or two countries to attend the meeting as a special invitation. Last year, French President Emanuel Macron invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 summit. Prime Minister Modi attended the G7 meeting in Biarritz, France, last August.
Trump’s invitation to Russia is seen as a cause for concern for China, as Beijing has had close ties to Moscow since Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama banned him from the G8 in 2014 after Russia took over Crimea.
Since then, Russia has become a close strategic ally of China. According to reports from Russia, Moscow has shown interest in accepting the invitation to attend the G7 meeting.
“President Putin is a supporter of dialogue in all directions, but in this case, in order to respond to such initiatives, we need to get more information that we unfortunately do not have,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by China’s state – Run CGTN.
“We do not yet know the details of this proposal, we do not know if it is official,” he said, adding that Moscow needs to know what could be on the agenda of the proposed meeting and in its format before responding.