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China topped the agenda at Tuesday’s G7 foreign ministers meeting in London, the first time envoys from the world’s seven wealthiest countries have met in person since the COVID-19 outbreak.
The ministers spent two hours, four times longer than other topics, discussing how to form a united front to address China’s growing influence around the world and reassert what U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says is the “international rules-based order.”
If the G7 is able to mobilize and implement programs designed to confront what they deem as Chinese assertiveness, it’s likely that some, if not most, of that effort will take place in the Global South. Infrastructure development, in particular, is an area that both these foreign ministers and their respective presidents and prime ministers have identified as a potential area to compete directly with the Chinese and form some kind of Belt and Road alternative.
Top diplomats of South Korea, Britain agree on cooperation on vaccine access, climate change
Posted : 2021-05-07 09:30
Updated : 2021-05-07 09:30
From top, South Korean Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong and British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab speaking during the plenary session at the G7 Foreign and Development Ministers meeting at Lancaster House in London, Britain, May 4, 2021. EPA-Yonhap
The top diplomats of South Korea and Britain have agreed to reinforce cooperation on equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, climate change and the expansion of bilateral exchanges during their talks near London, the foreign ministry said Friday.
The agreement came during a strategic dialogue between Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong and his British counterpart, Dominic Raab, in the London suburb of Kent on Thursday, the day after a Group of Seven ministerial session ended.
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center top, participates in a trilateral meeting with the foreign ministers of Japan Toshimitsu Motegi, third from left at tabel, and South Korea s foreign minister Chung Eui-yong, second from right at table, on the sidelines of a G7 foreign ministers meeting in London, Wednesday, May 5, 2021.(Ben Stansall/Pool Photo via AP)
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken was lectured by China and Russia at a United Nations Security Council meeting that saw the authoritarian powers attempt to invalidate Western diplomatic initiatives and the U.S. alliance network.
“I’m sure that all countries would be glad to see the United States changing course and make a real contribution to practicing multilateralism,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday, moments after Blinken concluded his remarks.
That taunt was one among many compliments and rebukes that the Chinese envoy doled out during the meeting, capitalizing on his control of the microphone as this month’s president of the Security Council.