Beijing slams UK, Japan over ‘anti-China’ G7 summitReuters, BEIJING and TOKYOChina’s Global Times yesterday called the G7 an “anti-China workshop,” a day after Beijing summoned Japan’s envoy and berated Britain in a fiery response to statements issued at the group’s summit in Hiroshima. G7 declarations issued on Saturday singled out China on issues including Taiwan, nuclear arms, economic coercion and human rights abuses, underscoring the wide-ranging tensions between Beijing and the group that includes the US. Russia, a close ally of China that was also called out in the G7 statement over its invasion of Ukraine, said the summit was an “incubator” for anti-Russian and anti-Chinese hysteria. The main G7 leaders’ communique mentioned China 20 times, up from 14 mentions last year. “The G7 mentioned many concerns [over China] in an unprecedented way.

Source: Taipei Times May 22, 2023 21:37 UTC