The G7 summit is a group of Western countries composed of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada, which is held once a year. In addition to the leaders of these seven countries, there are two representatives of the European Union. So, there were nine people at every group photo.
On May 19, 2023, the G7 summit took a group photo at Itsukushima Shrine in Hiroshima, Japan.
From left to right: European Council President Charles Michel, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, France's Emmanuel Macron, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, United States** Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
In addition to India, Australia, and South Korea, which the United States wants to pull into the G7, the summit also invited Indonesia, Brazil, Vietnam, Comoros, the Cook Islands, and other countries. This shows that the United States and Western countries want to strengthen the camp against China and win over some emerging economies and developing countries. This is a warning to us.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida chairs the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan.
At the same time, China and Central Asian countries also held a summit and put forward the principles of equality, mutual benefit, cooperation and win-win results, contributing to world peace, prosperity and development.
However, the G7 summit only cares about its own interests, interferes in the internal affairs of other countries, and creates international contradictions and confrontations. Their joint statement is full of attacks on China, prohibiting China from building islands and reefs in the South China Sea, developing its nuclear forces, and realizing peaceful reunification. They are troublemakers in today's world.
China is one of the five formal nuclear powers, and the only one that has pledged not to be the first to use nuclear weapons, not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear countries, and not to exercise nuclear deterrence against any country. China's nuclear ** numbers have been kept to a minimum, and according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, China now has about 350 nuclear warheads, far less than the United States and Russia.
The U.S. Department of Defense has made a lot of noise, and China will significantly increase its nuclear power in the next decade, and by 2035, it may have 1,500 nuclear warheads. The United States has also taken advantage of this to hype up the theory of the China threat in an attempt to smear China.
Even if China really increases the number of nuclear weapons to 1,500, it will not be as good as the United States and Russia. In the face of tensions in the Taiwan Strait and the deterioration of Sino-US relations, the United States is also carrying out nuclear intimidation against China, and it is necessary for China to appropriately increase its nuclear arsenal in order to protect its homeland security. The United States' opposition to China's move is completely vexatious.
Taiwan is a part of China, and the one-China principle is the consensus of the international community. With the rise of China's economy, the United States and the West have seen China as a force to challenge their international order. They don't want to see China develop, they want China to be their cheap foundry.
In order to achieve this goal, they have formed an anti-China camp, created the theory of the China threat in the international community, poured dirty water on China, and described China's efforts for cross-strait reunification as China's aggressive behavior, in an attempt to get more countries to confront China together.
However, many countries can still see the facts clearly, and no matter how loud the G7 summit is, it will not be able to stop the general trend of China's reunification. The Taiwan issue is China's core interest, and any country that provokes China on this issue will pay a heavy price.
The South China Sea is China's territorial waters, and it has been since ancient times. However, in the early days of liberation, China's navy was weak and could not fully control the South China Sea, so Vietnam, the Philippines and other countries took the opportunity to occupy some Chinese islands and reefs.
Now that China has a strong navy, it has to defend its own waters in the South China Sea. In order to maintain peace in the South China Sea, China has put forward the idea of shelving disputes and joint development to the benefit of all countries surrounding the South China Sea.
However, there are still some countries in the South China Sea, and in order to better protect the rights and interests of the South China Sea, China has built some islands and reefs in the South China Sea, so that those who provoke trouble can be driven out in time. China's construction of islands and reefs in its own waters is China's internal affair, and the G7 of the United States opposes China's actions with ulterior motives.
For China, the G7 joint statement is just a piece of waste paper, not worth mentioning. The G7 countries should take care of their own affairs first and not always think about containing China's rise.