China says attempts to draw a “little circle” against it are “doomed to failure”.
Beijing:
China on Tuesday reacted strongly to US President Donald Trump’s plan to invite India, Russia, Australia and South Korea to the G7 summit, saying any attempt to trace a “little circle” against Beijing will be “doomed to failure and will become unpopular”.
The G7 is the group of the seven main developed economies. These include the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada. The heads of state of these countries meet annually to discuss global governance issues, including climate change, security and the economy.
Donald Trump postponed the G7 summit to September and expressed his desire to widen the “obsolete” bloc to the G10 or G11, including India and three other countries to regroup the main economies of the world.
Asked about his reaction to Trump’s plan to invite India and three other nations to the G7 summit, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told media that “China believes that all international organizations and conferences should foster mutual trust between countries to support multilateralism and promote the world. peace and development “.
“We believe this is the role of the overwhelming majority of the countries in the world. Any attempt to find a small circle against China is doomed to failure and is unpopular,” he said.
There is a sense of concern about Trump’s invitation to India and three other countries, especially at a time when he seeks to isolate Beijing with a series of measures, including the withdrawal of special status from Hong Kong in response to the new Chinese security law for the old. British colony, imposing restrictions on Chinese students above the undergraduate level, withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization, emphasizing its links with China.
Trump is also pushing to decouple China from global supply chains, which could hurt the world‘s second largest economy in the long term.
Tension between the U.S. and China is mounting over the coronavirus pandemic, with Trump accusing Beijing of withholding timely information about the disease and demanding an investigation into the origins of the virus.
However, China has rejected all of the US cover-up allegations regarding the COVID-19 outbreak.
The United States currently holds the annual presidency of the G7 countries. In view of the coronavirus pandemic, the virtual holding of the summit was discussed. However, Trump had suggested that he be detained in person.
At the summit, the G7 president normally invites heads of state from one or two countries to attend the meeting as a special guest.
Last year, French President Emanuel Macron invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 summit. Prime Minister Modi attended the G7 meeting in the French city of Biarritz last August.
Trump’s invitation to Russia is considered a source of concern for China, as Beijing has established close relations with Moscow since its expulsion from what was previously known as the G8 in 2014 by Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, following the takeover of Crimea by Russia.
Since then, Russia has become a close strategic ally of China.
Reports from Russia indicate that Moscow has shown interest in accepting the invitation to participate in the G7 meeting.
“President Putin is in favor of dialogue in all directions, but in this case, to respond to such initiatives, we must receive more information, which we unfortunately do not have,” said the spokesman for Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov, quoted by the Chinese state. -execute CGTN.
“We do not yet know the details of this proposal, we do not know if it is official,” he said, adding that Moscow must know what could be on the agenda for the proposed meeting and its format, before responding.
The United Kingdom and Canada opposed Russia’s return to the G7, widening the divide over President Trump’s wish to join the country, the BBC reported.
Trump told Putin on Sunday that he would invite him to the G7 summit.
The White House said that “progress towards convening the G7” with Russia was among the topics discussed by the leaders in a phone call, reports said.
