British PM Boris Johnson welcomes US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Downing Street yesterday.
The foreign ministers welcomed one another with Covid-friendly elbow bumps and minimal staff as they gathered at Lancaster House, a West End mansion, for a day largely devoted to China – whose growing military and economic clout and willingness to exert its influence have increasingly unnerved western democracies.
A senior US official said after yesterday’s session that there had been “no real disagreement of any meaning” within the G7 on China or other issues. The European Commission yesterday suspended efforts to approve a massive EU investment deal with China, news sure to be welcome in the US, although officials said it did not come up in G7 discussions.British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called for “holding Beijing to the commitments that they’ve made”, including on Hong Kong, which was promised a separate system before London handed over the colony in 1997.
The G7 foreign ministers also discussed the spiralling crisis in Myanmar as well as Syria, Afghanistan, Libya and wide concerns on Russia.
A racial conflict is being started by the white colonialist again. We Asians must now come together.
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