The Chinese state newspaper Global Times called the summit today. G7 “anti-Chinese workshop”, and Beijing summoned the Japanese ambassador to express his displeasure and criticized the UK in response to statements made at the Hiroshima summit over the weekend.

China has already voiced “deep dissatisfaction” with the G7 joint statement, criticizing it on a range of issues from the South China Sea and human rights to interference in G7 countries’ internal affairs.

The G7 countries, in their joint statement, urged China “not to resort to intrusive actions” in their internal affairs and expressed “concern” about the human rights situation, “especially in Tibet and Xinjiang.” At the same time, they stressed the “importance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait” and said they were “extremely concerned” about the situation in the South China Sea, indirectly accusing Beijing of “coercion.”

In response, on Saturday, Beijing “expressed strong dissatisfaction and strong opposition and issued a formal protest to Japan, the host country of the meeting, as well as other interested parties.”

Today, in an editorial titled “The G7 Turned into an Anti-China Seminar,” the Global Times reported that “the US is working hard to build an anti-China network in the Western world.”

A similar statement from Moscow

“This is not only gross interference in China’s internal affairs and defamation, but also a clear propensity for conflict between the two sides,” the article says.

China’s Foreign Ministry also said it strongly opposed the G7 announcement and said late Sunday that it had summoned the Japanese ambassador to Beijing as part of its protests to the G7 host country.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong summoned Japanese Ambassador Hideo Tarumi to protest.

Sun said that Japan cooperated with other countries at the G7 summit “in actions and joint statements (…) aimed at slandering China, grossly interfering in China’s internal affairs, violating the basic principles of international law, and the spirit of the four political texts between China and Japan” , referring to the 1972 Sino-Japanese Joint Declaration.

For his part, Tarumi responded that it is “natural” for the G7 to address issues of common interest, as it has done in the past, noting that it will continue to do so in the future until China changes its stance. position.

Russia, a close ally of China, which has also come under fire over the G7’s announcement of an invasion of Ukraine, called the summit a “hotbed” of anti-Russian and anti-Chinese hysteria.

In addition, the Chinese Embassy in the UK yesterday urged London to stop slandering China after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Beijing was the biggest threat to security and prosperity in the world.

^{Source: APE-MEB, Reuters, AFP.}