SUBSCRIBE to EIR Daily Alert Service G7 Ministers Fixate on China, Stick with Imperial ‘Rules-Based Order,’ not the BRI May 5, 2021 (EIRNS)—The May 3-5 summit of Group of Seven Foreign and Development Ministers in London had one purpose: to craft a unified attack on China, all the while proclaiming that containment is not a goal, but demanding that China adhere to the “rules-based international order”—which rules are written by the same imperial geopolitical forces determined to crush China. Particular focus was placed on the “danger” of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which as top State Department officials warned in a May 4 briefing to reporters, uses its development strategies “to make countries dependent on them” and compromise their sovereignty.