The Group of Seven industrial powers met on Tuesday to criticize China’s crackdown on Taiwan and Russia’s threat to plant nuclear weapons in Belarus, vowing to tighten sanctions against Moscow over its war on neighboring Ukraine.
“The strength of solidarity between G7 foreign ministers is at a level never seen before,” Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi told a news conference after hosting a meeting of the group in the Japanese resort town of Karuizawa.
The show of unity comes after French President Emmanuel Macron said this month that the European Union should reduce its dependence on the United States and warned against being dragged into a crisis in Taiwan.
Beijing, which views Taiwan as Chinese territory and has not renounced the use of force to seize the democratically ruled island, dismissed the G7 comments as gross interference in its internal affairs.
The G7 communique highlights how much the issues of Russian military intervention and fears of similar action by China against Taiwan are the focus of the three-day meeting.
The group, which comprises the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Canada, described Russia’s threat to place nuclear weapons in Belarus as “unacceptable”. He said that “any use of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons in Ukraine” would have serious consequences.
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared last month that Russia would deploy short-range tactical nuclear weapons because the NATO military alliance was expanding towards Russia’s borders.
Source: CNN Brasil
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