Agencies – London:
After the G7 summit, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that China poses the greatest challenge to the world’s security and prosperity, but that other leading economies should not seek complete decoupling from it.
“China poses the greatest challenge of our time to global security and prosperity. It is becoming increasingly authoritarian at home and expanding its influence at the external level,” Sunak told reporters, after the “Group of Seven” summit held in Hiroshima, Japan. He added that Britain and other “G7” countries will follow a common approach to reduce the challenges posed by China. “It’s all about risk reduction, not decoupling,” he said. “With the G7, we are taking steps to prevent China from using economic coercion to interfere in the sovereign affairs of others.”
Former British Prime Minister Liz Terrace last week became the most prominent British politician to visit Taiwan after former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited the island in the 1990s, and Terrace said the West should neither “appease nor accommodate” China.
Tensions have risen as China increasingly insists that the democratically governed island is part of its territory. Beijing has never ruled out the use of force to control Taiwan. On the other hand, Sunak also said yesterday that his country will start training Ukrainian pilots this summer to support Kiev in its war with Russia.
Sunak, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at his side, stated that no one wants peace more than Zelenskyy, and that peace terms should be based on Ukraine’s principles. Over the course of the three days of the summit, the countries of the group sent signals to Russia that they were ready to support Ukraine in the long term.
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