Biden agrees to ‘reduce risk’ to G7 China to brake ‘Korea-US-Japan nuclear alliance near China’
At the Hiroshima G7, China’s “decoupling” attempt was changed to “risk reduction” due to Japan’s Europe’s brakes, and Biden’s attempt to create a “close nuclear alliance near China” seems to have been put on hold by the trilateral system of Korea, the US and Japan.
"Our policy approach is not intended to harm China or impede China's economic development and progress," the G7 joint statement said. "A growing China acting by international rules will be a global concern. Not looking inwards. At the same time, we know that we need to reduce risk and diversify to be economically resilient," he said, specifying 'economic recovery risk reduction diversification'.
Reuters reported on the 22nd that the US tried to “decoupling” the G7 China statement, but Japan and Europe, which have many economic ties with China, changed it to “risk elimination (reduction).”
Regarding the G7 agreement, the New York Times said, “President Biden has been working behind the scenes to promote reconciliation between Korea and Japan, and South Korean President Seok-Yeol Yoon plans to integrate Japan into an advisory group on nuclear strategy and deterrence announced during a state visit last month. revealed this If successful, a much closer nuclear alliance will be formed near China,” it reported on the 22nd.
The NYT continued, “What looks like risk reduction for the US and Europe may look like a containment strategy expressed in Beijing,” said Michael J. Green, Asia’s top advisor at the time of President George W. “It is a series of diplomatic victories for the United States and a series of defeats for China,” he said.
The NYT said in a contact between Sullivan National Security Advisor Wang Yi and Chinese State Councilors about the Biden administration's 'thawing' in China, "Deputy Wang emphasized that China does not seek a conflict with Taiwan, and China did not seek a conflict with Taiwan last summer. It seemed to be trying to appease US officials, who were concerned that it could accelerate their plan to resolve it by force," Wang said. .
“Leaders of the G7 wealthy democracies have promised to ‘eliminate the risk’ without ‘decoupling’ with China,” Reuters reported, adding that “an approach that reflects concerns in Europe and Japan about pushing Beijing too hard,” with negotiating officials. the experts' assessments.
Regarding the term "risk removal" adopted by the G7, the NYT is a new term coined by Europeans and "explains a strategy to reduce dependence on the Chinese supply chain without 'decoupling', a much more serious separation of economic relations." has embraced the phrase, and the strategy expressed as self-defensive rather than punitive has become an integral part of recent conversations about how to deal with Beijing.”
As for the “risk removal” strategy, Security Adviser Jake Sullivan described it as “building a high fence around a small yard” as a way to respond to “protection of key technologies that could bolster China’s rapid military buildup.”
The NYT continued, “Differences between G7 members over China were exposed ahead of Hiroshima, and the United States demanded investment control in China, but Germany, France, and Japan were all more cautious with the G7 ministerial meeting, given the potential impact on the economy.” As a result, the G7 joint statement is tempered by pragmatism, stating the consensus that "each country will work for the national interest, without hindering China's economic development and development."
The easing brought these mixed views into sharp focus after French President Emmanuel Macron visited Beijing last month to urge the European Union to reduce its reliance on the United States.
A French negotiator said, "As the talks between the G7 members continued, the language of the statement became more balanced." position, all presented in G7 language," Reuters said.
"There are differences between the G7 countries on issues such as restrictions on US investment in China," a Japanese negotiator said. "The summit was still able to send a message that transcended these differences," he told Reuters.
After the release of the G7 statement, President Biden said that he expected the thawing with China to be "very short", and that "risk elimination" was "to ensure that the United States does not depend on any one country for the products it needs."
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said, “The G7 countries will ensure that large-scale investment in China continues even if it avoids more dangerous exposure,” and went to Korea to hold the summit.
"The United States will come up with its own approach to controlling foreign investment after 'full consultation' with its G7 partners," White House National Security Adviser Sullivan told reporters in Hiroshima.
"I think a risk-averse approach is the easiest way for the G7 to reach an agreement on China," said Jonathan Berkshire Miller, director of the Macdonald Laurier Institute, a public policy strategy group. "We understand the risks of deep economic ties with China, but we realize that a complete severing of economic ties is not realistic," he told Reuters.
Regarding why ideological language such as freedom has been excluded from G7 statements and meetings and language choices have been prudent, Reuters said, “We are eager to use language that does not alienate members of the ‘southern hemisphere’, non-aligned emerging countries such as India that the G7 is trying to woo. did,” he said.
"This was an active attempt by the G7 to maintain balance within the G7, without giving China an excuse to complain, and not crowding out the southern hemisphere," Miko Huotari, director of the Mercator Center for Chinese Studies, told Reuters about the G7 language predation.
President Biden revealed the’Democratic Alliance’ at the US-Japan summit, and Prime Minister Kishida did not use the related term.
President Yoon Seok-yeol announced a roadmap for aid to food crisis countries such as Kenya and Uganda, saying, “I will participate in expanding freedom from hunger and disease,” at the “Food Health and Gender Session” at the G7 expansion meeting on the 20th, and the Presidential Office briefed.
At a Korean press briefing in Hiroshima that day, Deputy Minister of National Security Kim Tae-hyo said, "Several summits held in Hiroshima will have bilateral talks with most of the G7 and bilateral talks with all Quad Ocus countries." It became a place to confirm consensus on security issues,” he said, separating Korea from the international community.
President Biden announced that he was 'invited to Washington' without a Korea-US-Japan summit in Hiroshima, and Korea repeatedly announced the Korea-US-Japan summit in Hiroshima earlier.
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