Biden rallies Western allies in a global ‘competition’ against authoritarian regimes

U.S. President Joe Biden has accused G7 leaders of using their economic power to counter China’s rising global power, while declaring Western democracy a “struggle for independence”.

Biden said he was “satisfied” with the outcome of the G7 summit in Cornwall on Sunday, but pushed for European leaders to be more enthusiastic about supporting him. alternatives to China’s Belt and Road Initiative by giving more money to poor countries.

European leaders at the summit, the world’s most advanced economic summit, were very cautious in provoking Beijing. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who attends the summit, declined to name China specifically by their names at his last meeting.

Several leaders, including Mario Draghi, Italy’s prime minister, have said that Europeans should work with China in key areas, especially in climate change.

French President Emmanuel Macron said the G7 “did not hate China”, while a British official said: “The purpose of the summit is to show what we are talking about, not who we are against.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel co-founded a working group to explore ways in which the G7 governments could work with secret agencies on construction projects in the developed world.

Speaking after the meeting, which was held in Carbis Bay on the English coast of Cornish, Biden praised A brief meeting in reference to China, stating that he was “satisfied” with the content and that there were “numerous actions” on the anti-Beijing road.

The US president said the last time the G7 met was when China was not mentioned. “The G7 has openly agreed to call for human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong,” he said, adding that there was also a way to force China to use force.

“We are fighting, not with China alone, but with independent governments and independent governments around the world if democracy can compete with them in the 21st century,” Biden said.

At the end of the three-day summit, G7 leaders introduced a new approach called “Build a Better Worldwide Plan”, or B3W, but failed to accept details of how it should be paid for or what it could include.

Biden said the committee would develop the policy, with a focus on climate change, health care, digital technology and gender equality, to address the problem. billions of dollars spent by China on construction in poor countries.

“China has a Belt and Road Initiative, and we think there is a more equitable way to meet the needs of developing countries around the world,” he said. The new fund “should represent the values ​​that our democracies represent, not the shortcomings of the nonsense”.

However, climate change experts say the G7 summit has failed to make any agreement to help developing organizations reduce greenhouse gas emissions or to deal with natural disasters.

It also reduced commitment G7 environmentalists was made last month at the time of coal mining. The target of the “most discontinued power plant by 2030” was removed in recent cases.

G7 leaders have also been criticized for seeking popularity their Covid vaccine sharing program and poor countries. The group said the group will share “at least 870m in specific terms next year”.

Oxfam responded that “Billions would be a drop in the bucket, but they have not achieved this”. The report said the G7 had vaccinated more than 2bn of developing countries since the outbreak began.

Biden described the rally as a respite from Trump’s time, saying “America is back on the table. America is back to lead the world.”

A European diplomat said: “Everyone is happy that the US is back, but American leadership means they will want something from us.”

Johnson said the meeting was characterized by “good cooperation”, though the Brexit issue and the new trade rules of Northern Ireland disrupted talks with European leaders.

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The British Prime Minister has pledged to do “whatever it takes” to ensure that the Brexit agreement does not impose a burden of unequal ties between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

China has criticized the US and other G7 members, calling it “real connections” based on the UN. “The days when global elections are dominated by a small group of countries are long gone,” a spokesman for China’s ambassador to London said.

Additional material by Erika Solomon in Berlin