Criticism after summit
China feels “slandered and attacked” by G7 countries
17.06.2024, 13:23
In their final declaration from the summit in Italy, the G7 states called on China to stop supplying Russia with weapons parts and threatened sanctions. They also criticized Beijing’s actions in the South China Sea. The People’s Republic reacted angrily.
China has sharply criticized the final declaration of the G7 summit. The participating states had “slandered and attacked China” in it, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian in Beijing. The declaration “repeated clichés that have no factual, legal or moral basis and are full of arrogance, prejudice and lies.”
At the end of their meeting in Italy on Friday, the group of large industrialized nations (G7) criticized the People’s Republic’s actions in several respects. In their final declaration, the G7 states called, among other things, for a halt to the supply of weapons parts to Russia. “China’s continued support for the Russian arms industry” enables Moscow to “continue its illegal war in Ukraine,” says the final declaration published by the Italian G7 presidency.
The G7 are calling on China to stop supplying “dual-use goods, including weapons components and equipment.” They are also threatening to impose sanctions on actors from China and other countries “who provide material support to Russia’s war machine.” The G7 also expressed “serious concern” about China’s actions in the South China Sea, including the Taiwan Strait, which Beijing sees as a renegade province.
The G7 group, which includes Germany, Italy, the USA, Canada, Great Britain, France and Japan, also condemned China’s “harmful overcapacity” in international trade. It criticized Beijing’s “industrial policies and comprehensive non-market-compliant measures and practices.” This leads to “market distortions and harmful overcapacity in a growing number of sectors.”