Blaming China for all international troubles only exposes the moral decay of the US-led club

The G7 summit in Italy last month was much about blaming China for all international conflicts and geostrategic questions ranging from the Russia-Ukraine conflict, South China Sea and climate crisis to cybersecurity and “overcapacity”. It was the United States promoting its fabricated international consensus that China should be held accountable for all crises.

The posturing in Italy was an attempt to redirect the dissatisfaction of the public and voters in their own countries toward China.

The official communique revealed the G7’s hypocritical agenda and the US’ hype against China, which is mentioned at least 25 times in the communique text. The theories of “containment”, “collapse” and “overcapacity” only promoted notions of bloc mentality and the Cold War. It was the US laying the groundwork for future camp confrontation, protectionism, economic isolation and hegemonic policies in the world.

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Ironically, the G7 pursued its global divide-and-rule policy by engaging and inviting the Global South countries. Thus leaders from India, Brazil, South Africa, Turkiye, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Algeria, Kenya and Mauritania were invited.

The communique seems to be heavily influenced by the US’ strategic power politics objectives to counter China and Russia.

It is nothing but a “responsibility-shifting” joint statement, which has proved G7 members’ inability to think and act independently. It vividly reflects perpetual camp confrontation, creating disorder, destruction and disharmony instead of a law-based world order, development, peaceful coexistence and multiculturalism.

Critical analysis reveals that the G7’s attempt to smear China in the context of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict is a ploy of the US to gain a competitive edge globally. China has nothing to do with the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Rather, it has tried its best to resolve the issue through rigorous track-II diplomacy.

The G7 does not represent the whole world because it represents only 10 percent of the world’s population. Its total share in the global economy has been in constant decline and its combined contribution to global economic growth is less than that of China. Interestingly, BRICS has already surpassed the G7 in terms of GDP, industrial growth, supply chain system, economic sustainability and innovations.

Meanwhile, the G7 further widened the gap between the Global North and Global South by drawing lines in terms of self-centric ideology and values, self-assessed parameters of democracy, inflaming bloc confrontation and creating regional conflicts. The G7 keeps on sending military vessels and aircraft into the Asia-Pacific region to create tensions, and arming the Taiwan region to threaten peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.

In recent years, the US has continuously aggregated the concept of national security, economic protectionism and unilateral imposition of sanctions, and intensified its crackdown on Chinese companies. It has dishonored the principles of free market economy, fair competition and equal opportunity, destabilizing the international economic and trade order.

The G7’s “overcapacity” hype about China is unsupported by facts or the laws of the economy. It is just an excuse for protectionism and weakens the global effort for green and low-carbon transition and cooperation on climate response.

Thus the G7’s communique is another attempt to make a scapegoat out of China, which is the real champion of peace, stability, sustainability and manufacturing in the world. Politicizing and weaponizing trade will achieve nothing but reverse the process of globalization.

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It seems the G7’s DNA has been decomposed. At past summits, the West’s biggest economies talked often about teaming with Beijing to fight climate change, terrorism and nuclear proliferation, but this time all blamed China for international problems.

This shows the real color of global politics shifting from international cooperation toward bloc formation, from economic globalization toward economic protectionism, from global green efforts to tariff increase on EVs and solar panels, from qualitative industrialization to wrong notions of overcapacity, from rule of international law to military misadventures, and from multiculturalism to so-called white supremacy.

The global development, security and civilization initiatives raised by China are winning the hearts of the global majority, as they are the real guarantors of world peace, political stability and economic sustainability.

The author is president of Pak-China Corridor of Knowledge and executive director of the Center for South Asia and International Studies. 

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