Nury Vittachi: WHEN EUROPEAN LEADERS refused to back the US’s anti-China campaign, internet connections were shut down to ensure no outside heard the discussion, a report from the site said. . It happened during the Saturday evening discussion at the G-7 meeting in Cornwall, UK. . . TOUGH LINE The problem: All parties agreed that China (like France, Indonesia and others) was taking a tough line on violent Islamist radicalism. . But America is using “Uyghur rights groups” financed by the CIA’s regime change unit to exaggerate the process into a horrific “worse than the Holocaust” narrative in a bid to get the world on its side in an economic war against the Chinese, who are working to rise above their “developing nation” status. . As part of the strategy, US leader Joseph Biden wanted the G7’s joint communique to mention a recent chapter of the US-penned narrative, which is to paint entrepreneurs who employ Uyghur staff as monsters who run slave camps. The UK’s Boris Johnson and Canada’s Justin Trudeau said they would back it, but European countries declined, knowledgeable sources said. . . COINCIDENTAL TIMING It is worth noting that Amnesty International and the New York Times both “coincidentally” released “unverified” reports of atrocities in Xinjiang, presented as fact, to bolster Biden’s claim. . The NYT report repeated Adrian Zenz’s IUD statistics, omitting to note that they had long been debunked, and contained an absurd reference to “the destruction of Hong Kong”, despite the fact that Hong Kong is now statistically the world’s healthiest and one of the world’s wealthiest cities. . . SECRET CENSORS After the meeting, a Biden spokesman tried to make the fight sound trivial. “There is a little differentiation, I think I would say, within—within, I think, the spectrum of how hard they would push on some of these issues,” reporters were told. . But insiders told reporters that the quarrel over the US narrative got so heated that censors snapped into action. . “The disagreements, aired during a session that at one point became so sensitive that all internet was shut off to the room, pitted European nations against the United States, Britain and Canada,” according to a CNN report. . It was unthinkable that the people of the world should hear the discussion and be enlightened. . . VAGUE REFERENCES
And what happened in the end? The anti-China hawks lost, the Europeans won. The communique, when it was published, made only vague references to Hong Kong and Xinjiang, and no mention of slave labor. . Even with Amnesty International and the NYT backing them up, the US State Department lost this round. . . NOT FOOLED In related news, a classic idiom has been updated: “You can’t fool all the people all the time, even if you are richest country in the world spending hundreds of millions of dollars to try to make people hate a developing country.” . That’s good news for people everywhere, including Americans, many of whom are no fans of covert US activities overseas. . . Peace.
How century-old CPC appeals to youth today by Zhao Yusha, Chen Qingqing and Cao Siqi Jun 14 2021
Editor’s Note: The Communist Party of China (CPC) is preparing to celebrate its centenary anniversary on July 1, but it still shines with young vitality, as more than a third of its 92 million members are under 40. How did the centenarian Party, founded by young people, still manage to engage in young people? How do Chinese youth today, who grew up in peace, showered by the country’s booming economic and social development, and who are the cohort most exposed to the West, view the Party differently from their parents or grandparents? Does the passion for contributing to the Party remain strong in those youngsters?
This is second in a series of reports to decode why the CPC is the destined choice for the Chinese people, why it can rise above the challenges and tests over a century, and what is its secret code to success in governing such a vast country and implementing effective economic policies that have created an economic miracle for China and the world. The first explored how the CPC withstood storm after storm and overcame crisis after crisis and how firm leadership became the key to the CPC’s success.
School children take a photo with the flag of the Communist Party of China at an elementary school in Taizhou, East China’s Zhejiang Province on February 28.
It was just a normal Thursday in early June, except for the long line, made up mostly of young people, formed in front of Tiananmen Square at 2 am. They were waiting for the daily sunrise flag raising ceremony held at the Square. Two hours later, the moment the Square was opened, the chirpy crowd of youngsters raced against each other to get to the front, eager for the best angle to take selfies with the gleaming national flag in the background.
A dozen or so university students, all members of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said they were there to pay tribute to the Party before its centenary anniversary, which falls on July 1, as they were worried the square would become more crowded as the big day approached.
The CPC recorded nearly 92 million members at the end of 2019, more than one-third below 40 years of age, while student Party members accounted for 2 percent of the total number, making the CPC a relatively young ruling party globally.
However, the current generation of Chinese youth is facing a great deal of scrutiny. Youngsters in China, most of whom are the only child in the family and carry their family’s hopes on their shoulders, grew up enjoying the country’s booming development, and are the best-educated generation who are more connected to the world than their parents. They are also labeled as xiaohuangdi, the “spoiled little emperor” of the family, and the “lying flat” group, a buzzword recently used by young people as to take pause to breathe in this fast-paced and highly-competitive society..
As the CPC prepares to mark its 100th birthday, there has been new scrutiny of Chinese youth, and especially young Party members: Does the 100-year-old Party still have appeal to the young cohort? Do they, like their parents, still hold the purest belief that the CPC is the “only savior of China?” And do they still possess the passion, the righteous ardor, as their predecessors did, of serving the people and the country?
Firsthand lesson
Twenty-five-year-old Wuhan native Luo Ning submitted her application to join the Party this year. She said it was her father, a CPC member and grass-roots official who fought on the frontline of the city’s COVID-19 battle, who gave her the impetus to become a Party member.
“I saw my father sitting in front of a strictly cordoned off community compound, with his scarf covering his face, and trash bags used as PPE wrapped around his body. It was during the hardest time in February and March last year when Wuhan was being ravaged by the coronavirus and lacking in essential protective materials, such as masks and protective suits,” Luo said.
Luo said her father was among the first group of people to volunteer to serve on the frontline of the city’s COVID-19 fight. “I am a Party member, I should be up first,” was her father’s explanation.
“Party members should be up first. That’s what I heard him saying all the time when I grew up and became used to this slogan… But seeing him and so many other Party members risk their lives during the city’s arduous COVID-19 battle, and risk their lives to fulfill their promise of serving the people was a wake-up call for me. I also want to be the first to stand up in a crisis,” Luo said.
Statistics suggest some 29 million Party members fought on the frontline of China’s COVID-19 battle. A total of 25,000 frontline staff were promoted to become the Party member, and 8,209, or 32.8 percent of them, are jiulinghou, meaning people born in 1990 or after.
The year 2020 gave Chinese youngsters a chance to witness how the Party led a country of 1.4 billion in successfully keeping COVID-19 at bay in a short time through its strong leadership, and also to see how Party members put people first with real actions, Su Wei, a professor at the Party School of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee, told the Global Times. “Comparing the CPC’s success and responsibility with some Western political parties’ infighting, selfishness, or even using the pandemic to fight for political gains, has further consolidated Chinese youth’s admiration of our Party,” Su said.
Su pointed to the significance that role models, or frontline fighters during the pandemic battle, have had on young people. Examples of people who sacrificed their lives for the people have never been rare in the Party’s history, and many young people grow up hearing those heroic stories, Su told the Global Times, noting the devotion many frontline medical workers, Party members and others showed in order to beat the pandemic has further consolidated young people’s beliefs, because “it is an arduous fight that they lived themselves.”
Li Wenliang was among the frontline doctors whose lives were taken by the coronavirus. In late December 2019, Dr Li, an eye doctor working in Wuhan, Central China’s Hubei Province, shared his concerns about an unknown, SARS-like infectious disease with colleagues in a WeChat social media chat group. Only two months later, Li died after having contracted the virus, breaking the hearts of many Chinese people.
Li, who was a CPC member, was declared a martyr in April 2020. However, some Western media and politicians have never ceased exploiting Li’s death to attack China’s initial handling of the COVID-19 outbreak.
In a rebuttal to US lawmakers’ push to rename the street in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington “Li Wenliang Plaza,” Fu Xuejie, Li’s wife, said in a statement that her husband was a CPC member who loved his country deeply and would never allow anyone to use his name to harm China.
More than a year has passed since his death, but netizens continue to leave comments under the top post of Li’s Sina Weibo account posted on February 1, 2020, on which day he revealed he was confirmed positive for the virus. One of the most recent comments reads: “Dr Li, when I read the Party’s history, which is embellished by our national heroes, I thought of you. Less and less we talk about COVID-19, but we will never forget about you. I wish for the people and the country you loved and fought for to be better off!”
On June 13, the last day of Dragon Boat Festival national holiday in China, a girl is among a throng of tourists who came to Shanghai to watch a light show celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Photo: IC On June 13, the last day of Dragon Boat Festival national holiday in China, a girl is among a throng of tourists who came to Shanghai to watch a light show celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Photo: IC
Unfading passion
The special bond between youth and the Party can be traced back to the anti-imperial political movement of the 1910s. CPC founders Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, as well as many of the Party’s early members, were among the Chinese intellectuals who were influential in the 1919 student protests, better known as the May Fourth Movement.
It was a time when young people put their personal safety and even lives aside to help the country when its existence was on a cliff edge. In today’s China, young people, especially the jiulinghou, as the country’s best-educated group and often the only child in their family who grew up in a time of prosperity, are described as “spoiled and lacking in belief” and face doubts about whether they still have the passion that their predecessors had to serve the people and the country.
“Since I chose to be a soldier, I know what my responsibility is. If no one picks up the gun, who will protect our country, our homeland?” Xiao Siyuan wrote in his diary in September 2016, the first Mid-Autumn Festival he spent in the military.
Four years later, 24-year-old Xiao sacrificed his life at the China-India border clash in June of 2020, along with battalion commander Chen Hongjun and two other soldiers, Chen Xiangrong and Wang Zhuoran. Their deaths ignited torrents of condolences from Chinese society, thanking them for safeguarding the country’s territory.
Jun Yixiao (pseudonym), a 30-year-old Beijing resident who joined the Party seven years ago, paid tribute at Wang Zhuoran’s tomb in Central China’s Henan Province in April. “Our generation has become used to a comfortable life, or even chosen to ‘lie flat.’ So as a Party member, I always question if the spoiled jiulinghou are capable of contributing to the country and to society, like their predecessors did in the May Fourth Movement,” said Jun.
But Jun said the sacrifice of the young soldiers, and her strong emotions when standing in front Wang’s tomb made her believe that no matter how long they have become used to comfort, or how long they choose to lie flat, the passion inside Chinese youngsters and CPC members will always remain.
“When the country faces a crisis, we spoiled young generation will still stand up without hesitation. Just like one of the soldiers who sacrificed in the China-India border skirmish last year Chen Xiangrong once wrote, ‘Pure love, exclusively for China.'”
Unlike their parents and grandparents, who were born and grew up at a time of poverty, plague and ideological struggles, and held the simplest belief that only the CPC can save China, young CPC members reached by the Global Times said they see the CPC as a “lighthouse” that guides them to become better people.
Knowing the Party’s history, one can see that it was born during the darkest of times, when a group of people at young age tried hard and even sacrificed their lives to find a suitable path for China’s development. “A Party built by such great patriotism will never lose its appeal for young people,” 27-year-old Zeng Qing, a Chengdu resident who just filed her application to join the Party in early June, told the Global Times.
“For me, the Party is an organization with high standards and high requirements, so people will have higher expectations of its members,” said Zeng, noting that she believes the CPC has stuck to its original mission since its founding, which has led Chinese people to live better lives with dignity and have access to education.
Zeng said the Party has illuminated her path of growth. “Belief in the Party has prevented me from being influenced by the voices of gongzhi (pro-Western intellectuals), which dominated the internet when I grew up, and made me reflect on myself when I saw some CPC members going against their original mission and committing some wrongdoings.”
A university student and museum guide leads a group of vistors and explains the hostory behind the exhibits at the Cemetery of Revolutionary Martyrs in Yangzhou, East China’s Jiangsu Province on March 24.
Most confident generation
Some people seek for the Party’s roots for their mission in life, while certain youngsters find the Party’s history and guidance further fuels their patriotism and offers them confidence about modern China.
Cheng Ke, a Chongqing resident in his 30s who joined the Party four years ago, said he has studied Party history regularly. “Each time I can learn something new. Only if we know our Party’s history, can we be aware of the fundamental questions: Where we came from and where we are heading to. When we keep these in mind, we can withstand the temptations and influences from outside, especially during this time of radical change we’re experiencing right now,” said Cheng.
By radical change, he means that China is in a complicated international environment where the US and certain other countries are going all out to suppress a rising China, which is at a key stage of development.
According to a survey of 2,042 young people conducted by China Youth Daily in April, 74.7 percent believe that learning history can help them better understand China’s status quo and build strong sense of mission.
As the generation that has been immersed in imported pop culture, many of whom have studied abroad for years, young Chinese now are more willing than ever to defend China’s achievements, more vocal about their loyalty to the Party and the country, and more willing to voice opposition toward those who crossed the “red line” of their patriotism.
The latest case involves foreign retail giants Nike and H&M, who faced a boycott in China after they expressed concern about the alleged use of Uygur forced labor in the cotton production in Xinjiang.
Chinese analysts said that along with China’s success in tamping down the COVID-19 pandemic, US suppression of China in recent years, and the turmoil in Hong Kong in 2019, together offer Chinese youth “valuable lessons of patriotism.” As their national confidence is boosted by the CPC’s people-oriented approach, its effective and strong leadership, the once favorable impression toward the West has been shattered by its short-termism, selfish individualism, hypocrisy and partisan squabbling.
According to a survey of young people conducted by the Global Times in April, which included 1,281 respondents aged between 15 to 35 years old, 42.1 percent said they look at the West as equal; and 18.4 percent said they look down on the West.
“The CPC has won wide recognition among Chinese youth as they see their country is growing more and more prosperous under the Party’s leadership, and they are angry about certain countries, especially the US, who try to snuff out China’s rapid development,” Zhang Yiwu, a professor at Peking University, told the Global Times.
What the US did has exposed its hypocrisy in front of Chinese. They see how a country who advocates freedom, openness and upholds multilateralism has suddenly abandoned its values in order to crackdown on China’s development and maintain its hegemony, Zhang said.
During his last year in office, former US president Donald Trump targeted all CPC members, ordering that travel to the US by members of the CPC and their immediate families should be curtailed.
Chengdu-based Zeng studied in the Netherland for a few years. “I’ve seen how some people in the West defame the CPC, but I also saw how life in the West really is, they live just like us.”
Zeng’s grandmother was a doctor, and she was sent by the Chinese government to help Mozambique in the 70s. When she returned two years later, she brought back two kilos of sugar, which was rare in China at the time.
“That contrast, the shock can easily sway their [her grandmother’s generation] personal choices. But for my generation, there’s not much gap between China and Western countries, we even outstrip them in certain areas, such as telecommunications, logistics and so forth,” Zeng said.
Working as a scientific researcher, Zeng said she never has deliberation on any impact the US sanction may bring to herself. “We even jokingly said the US sanctions on any group or individual are solid proof they are the top-notch in their field,” Zeng said, noting that “nothing really matters when I made up my mind to dedicate my knowledge to my country.”
A student from a college in Nantong, East China’s Jiangsu Province, paints a picture with a CPC revolutionary theme on April 28.
Draw young ‘blood’
Experts noted that it is true that some Chinese youth see the Party as a place to hone their skills and polish their beliefs, and attracting young people also helps keep the vitality and energy of the centenarian Party.
Among those organs, the Chinese Communist Youth League (CCYL) has done a prominent job in pulling youth closer to the Party. The organization’s Central Committee has 16.11 million followers on China’s Twitter-like platform, more than 8.38 million users follow it on Bilibili, one of China’s biggest video-sharing sites and an online home for fans of anime, comics and games (ACG), and it has 1.05 million fans on Zhihu, China’s Quora-like platform.
Cheng Yuan, who is an editor of the league’s new media center told the Global Times that the CCYL has accounts on more than 20 social media platforms, even on some music apps. On Bilibili for example, the CCYL posted cartoons to illustrate the Party’s iconic events and stories, which gained active participation among platform users, Cheng said.
To commemorate the Party’s 100th birthday, the league initiated a discussion on Weibo under the hashtag: Why do you join the CPC? The hashtag has attracted 364,000 clicks. Cheng said most people commented under the topic said they want to do good things for the country and its people, and many netizens resonated with this opinion.
Aside from the internet, young people are actively engaged in bonding with the Party via other novel ways, including role-playing board games and plays. Some internet companies have developed online games featuring historic events of the CPC.
A Shanghai resident surnamed Huang said she had participated in a role-playing game set in 1948, a year before the founding of People’s Republic of China (PRC), when CPC members and members of the Kuomintang (KMT) wrestled with each other not only on the battlefield but also in the field of information service.
“I played this game because I know little about history before the founding of the PRC, and reading books bores me,” said Huang, noting that the immersive way has pulled her closer to history as she could identify with the role she played.
“There was an oath-taking ceremony as the game ended. I was still immersed in the role I played, an underground CPC member who was finally able to welcome the light of hope. As I read the oath, I found myself instilled with the determination to serve the country, the people; and ready to devote my life for the CPC,” said Huang, who shed tears after the ceremony.
The Party’s education campaign has been boosted by a slew of TV series, the latest and popular of which is Juexing Niandai (lit: Awakening Age), which illustrates the history from 1915 to 1921, including the New Culture Movement, the May Fourth Movement and eventually the establishment of the CPC.
Twenty-six-year-old Xiao Qing (pseudonym) rushed into her workplace’s Party committee office and expressed her willingness to join the CPC after watching the TV show. And she also joined the crowds to watch the flag raising ceremony on Thursday, to “revere the Party, the country on site.”
“I used to think the history before the founding of the PRC was too humiliating that I was reluctant to learn. But the show made the history come alive, and through the feeling that I’m in touch with all those historical figures, I got a deeper understanding of our Party. Even during that dark time, there were passionate youth struggling to find light for the country,” Xiao said.
Xiao ended up getting a “meaningful” selfie of herself and the national flag. Behind them is the portrait of China’s late leader Mao Zedong, who once said “The world is yours as well as ours. But in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people… are like the sun at eight or nine in the morning… We put our hopes in you,” in paying tribute to Chinese youth.
CPC wins wide recognition among Chinese youth Infographic
Qu Yuan has been regarded as the totem of Chinese culture for 2300 years. When China experiences difficulties, his patriotic spirit encourages countless people to love and protect their motherland. It was especially true when the country faces disasters. When the Mongols defeated the last troop of Sung Dynasty, more than 100 thousand soldiers, generals and officials jumped into the sea, choosing to die with their emperor and prime minister, and not even one person surrendered. China is invincible, as national pride and dignity are the country’s backbone. Not only does it have over 90% Han people as the mainstream nationality, but it also has 55 other ethnic groups identifying themselves as Chinese, not merely Mongols, Huis, Tibetans, Uyghurs, and so on.
Main data from 7th National Population Census of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region by Huo Siyu Jun 14 2021 From 2010 to 2020, total population in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region consistently grew, and education and urbanization level continued to improve. Have the Native Americans rise by the same percentage between 2010-20 in US and Canada? 2010年至2020年，新疆維吾爾自治區總人口持續增長，教育和城鎮化水平不斷提高。 2010-20 年間，美國和加拿大的美洲原住民是否以相同的百分比增長
US President Biden want to repeat what the league of 8 nations had done to China 120 years ago. He said that will help to reaffirm US Internatiional reputation on how freedom, democracy and human rights supposed to work. Really! 美國拜登總統想重複八國聯盟120年前對中國所做的搶劫強x殺人事情。 他說，這將有助於重申美國在自由、民主和人權應該如何運作方面的國際聲譽。 真的嗎? World Journal Newspaper San Francisco 美國加州舊金山世界日報 June 14 2021
Video: G7 Nations, losers alliance on infrastructure attempts to challenge China’s one belt one road initiative 失敗者聯盟夢想抗中國一帶一路 The video mentioned | China-Africa Relationship: https://youtu.be/0X0MU6FZUfs Published on Jun 13, 2021 https://vimeo.com/562700504 https://youtu.be/yvtym3Lxeo0 https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/510526616837335/?d=n China’s Belt and Road initiative is an infrastructure program launched in 2013 by President Xi Jinping involving development, port, road, rail and digital projects in Asia, Africa and Europe. According to Refinitiv, China had more than 2,600 projects at the cost of $3.7 trillion, linked to the Belt and Road Initiative as of mid-2020. However, due to the covid 19 Pandemic, 20% of the projects have been affected seriously.
Martin Jacques: G7 can no longer order the world around.
The G7 is no longer fit for purpose. Comprising the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan, in the 1970s the G7 was the overlord of the global economy. Today, the G7 is but a pale shadow of what it once was, reduced to the role of a declining faction within the global economy. It still talks in grandiose terms about its intentions, but the world has learnt to discount them….
Under Biden, as if to confirm its eclipse as a global institution, there is an ongoing attempt to reframe G7 as the representative and champion of the democratic world in the struggle against autocracy, shorthand for China. To this end, South Korea, India, Australia and South Africa have been invited to attend the G7 summit this week. There is even talk of the G7 becoming the D10 (D being a reference to democracy). This, however, would only serve to emphasize the declining authority of the G7: from global leader to ideological sect.
…Here we get to the heart of the crisis of the G7. It is the rise of China, above all else, that has transformed the global economy, sidelined the G7 and, at the same time, reconfigured the various G7 economies. Good relations with China are fundamental to the economic prospects of Germany, France and Italy. That is why they are opposed to the G7 becoming an anti-China crusade. So is Japan; and likewise would-be recruits such as South Korea and South Africa. Here laid bare, then, are the fault lines of the G7 and any potential extended membership. The West is divided and fragmenting. The authority of the US is in decline, no longer able to get its way as it once was….
The West, in contrast, has failed because its history has been precisely the opposite, one of colonization and the exploitation and subjugation of these countries. It has neither the experience, empathy nor motivation that is required. The existential gap between the rich Western world and the developing world is a multidimensional chasm.
A dramatic example of the West’s indifference to the needs of the developing world will be on full display at the G7 summit. Although the US and UK, and increasingly Western Europe, have vaccinated a majority of their populations against COVID-19, the UK, to take one example, has not exported a single dose of vaccine to the developing world. It has kept all its vaccines for itself, even though its existing stock far exceeds its own future needs….
The author was until recently a Senior Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University. He is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Modern International Relations at Tsinghua University and a Senior Fellow at the China Institute, Fudan University. Follow him on twitter @martjacques. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn
As predicted, a bunch of AngloSaxon racists plus a Japanese Banana put up a show good for nothing.
SCMP: In politics as theatre, symbols and allegory were everywhere. As home to the mythical 12th-century King Arthur, Cornwall provided a fine setting for a grand “round table”, even without a Merlin to work miracles.
The clearest symbols were Churchillian rather than Arthurian – fitting, given the role Winston Churchill plays in Johnson’s political psyche. They were articulated in the 604-word new Atlantic Charter released by Biden and Johnson ahead of the Carbis Bay meeting. Johnson was explicitly harking back 80 years to the August 1941 meeting between Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill in Placentia Bay in Newfoundland at which the original Atlantic Charter was agreed.
Churchill arrived aboard the HMS Prince of Wales, and it was no accident that Britain’s newest aircraft carrier, the £3.3 billion (US$4.7 billion) HMS Prince of Wales, stood guard over Carbis Bay as Biden and Johnson unveiled their new Atlantic Charter.
The original charter, drafted just four months before Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour brought the US formally into World War II, not only sits at the heart of the UK-US “special relationship”, but forged many of the West’s foundational principles for the rest of the century. It led to the creation of Nato and the Gatt – the precursor to the World Trade Organization – and its call for self-determination began the process of dismantling the British Empire.
The new Atlantic Charter may not leave such an enduring legacy, but there is a nerve-jangling sense that it is firmly focused on a new and different war ahead – in defence of liberal democracy as a superior political model, and against China as a challenger to the liberal democracies that have led world affairs for the past 80 years.
The new Atlantic Charter may not leave such an enduring legacy, but there is a nerve-jangling sense that it is firmly focused on a new and different war ahead – in defence of liberal democracy as a superior political model, and against China as a challenger to the liberal democracies that have led world affairs for the past 80 years.
When it comes to politics as theatre, the UK is a hard act to follow. And Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Carbis Bay in Cornwall over the weekend was a class Shakespearean act. Or was it Churchillian? Or Arthurian?
In short, it is high on moral fervour and short on specifics, and anxiously self-aware that many regard the G7 as a yesteryear organisation, overshadowed by the G20.
Johnson choreographed a G7 summit that all will remember. He may not succeed in restoring the G7 to its original Cold War glory, when its members (the US, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Japan and Canada) accounted for 59 per cent of world GDP (they account for 45 per cent today) and walked with a swagger, confident that they could shape the world in the image of Western liberal democracy. But he has given it a good shot.
He deserves credit for making the G7 summit a memorable, watershed event; a striking “coming out” celebration for Joe Biden in his first presidential sortie outside the US; an assertion of “Global Britain” as it sets out on its Brexit future; a surprisingly strong affirmation of the US-UK “special relationship”; and a fitting launch pad for the UK’s “main event” in November when, in Scotland, he will host the COP26 climate summit. Whether it provides foundations for a future “alliance of democracies” has yet to be seen.
For Biden, throw in a dinner with Queen Elizabeth, a summit with the European Union and Nato, and a snake-pit encounter with Vladimir Putin, and we are witnessing a striking repudiation of “America first” and a credible affirmation that Donald Trump’s wilderness years are firmly past.
As Biden told American troops at the Mildenhall Royal Air Force base after landing in the UK: “The United States is back and the democracies of the world are standing together to tackle the toughest challenges and issues that matter most to our future.”
What it really meant is the AngloSaxon + 1 want to be AngloSaxon Country: Japan, after the show and photo opts came up empty but still lies about it. These people with Cold War mentality will ends up destroying their countries and people with it just like COVID19. 它真正的意思是西人+ 1 那個想要成為西人國的小日本，做完秀和大合照後一事無成，但仍然是張大眼睛説謊言。 這些具有冷戰心態的領導人最終會像新冠病毒一樣摧毀他們的國家和人民。
New York Times BREAKING NEWS: President Biden said G7 leaders agreed on initiatives to counter Chinese influence. But nations failed to decide on a timeline to eliminate coal use.
Sunday, June 13, 2021 10:53 AM EST Wrapping up their first in-person summit since the outbreak of the pandemic, leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations released a joint communiqué, underscoring areas of solidarity — and the differences that remain — when it comes to tackling a host of global crises.
Johnson Choi Biz 