WASHINGTON/PARIS - The longest shadows at the Group of Seven (G7) leaders' summit this week will be cast by two countries that weren't even invited to the Hiroshima gathering: China and Russia. As the heads of the world's advanced democracies meet for three days from Friday in the western Japanese city, they will need to overcome some differences of their...
A woman walks past a G7 Hiroshima flower installation near the Peace Memorial Museum, ahead of the G7 summit, in Hiroshima, Japan, on May 17, 2023.WASHINGTON/PARIS - The longest shadows at the Group of Seven leaders' summit this week will be cast by two countries that weren't even invited to the Hiroshima gathering: China and Russia.
The G7 countries -- the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Canada and Italy -- are all closely tied economically to China, the world's second-largest economy and a key global manufacturing base and market. Their differences on China were put in sharp focus after French President Emmanuel Macron visited Beijing last month and called for the European Union to reduce its dependence on the United States.
"It's also geopolitical because tensions between China and the United States are increasing and so we need to express the rules of the game so that we can preserve our international cooperation capacities," the official said. While April's meeting of G7 foreign ministers acknowledged "the need to work together with China on global challenges" and reiterated its call for Beijing to act "as a responsible member of the international community", neither the group's climate nor finance chiefs directly mentioned China in their communiques.
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