US President Joe Biden called on European countries and Japan to withstand the growing influence of China to the economy and security, offering to issue hundreds of billions of dollars to developing countries so that it did not have to wait for new automotive and railways, ports and networks of Beijing, writes the new York Times.
Leaders of the “Big Seven” countries for the first time discussed the organization direct alternative to the Chinese “belt and path”, the pressure of Si Jinping on foreign loans and investments, which now spread in Africa, Latin America and Europe. But between the United States and their allies a lot of differences about how to react to the growing power of China.
Biden made a call to growing China and destructive Russia by a central element of foreign policy aimed at creating democracies around the world as an overtake against the spread of authoritarianism. Beijing, in turn, pointed to weak US decisions during a pandemic and conflicting American policies – especially in The rest of the riots on January 6 in the Capitol – as on the signs of the fact that democracy implies the collapse, “the publication writes.
at the Summit at the Summit on Saturday, June 12, discussions on how to resist this, reflected the debates of the Western powers on whether China as a partner, competitor, enemy or direct security threat.
Among the critical remarks of the West to the “belt and path” – the situation of countries that signed the agreement. They are dependent on China, providing Beijing too many levers of influence. G7 leaders greatly agree that the PRC uses its investment strategy both to strengthen its state enterprises and to create a network of commercial ports and, through Huawei, communication systems over which it will carry out considerable control. But speaking at the meeting officials stated that Germany, Italy and the European Union are concerned that they risk their huge trading and investment transactions with Beijing. No less bothering them and the fact that relations with the PRC acquire shades of a new cold war.
Previously, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharov was surprised by the statement of G7 countries in interest in “stable and predictable” relations with Russia. According to Zakharova, this appeal is addressed not only to the Russian side.