China has blasted the claims made by top officials from the Group of Seven developed governments in a joint statement, claiming that the G7 people are “filled with pride, prejudice, and malignant intentions.”
Yet for China’s typically heated diplomatic language, the statement released on Saturday was exceedingly vitriolic, even though it did not harm any retaliation.
The G7’s speech on Friday that sparked the Taiwanese response read,” We condemn China’s illegal, controversial, aggressive, and harmful actions that formally seek to undermine the stability of regions, including through land reclamations, and building of outposts, as well as their use for defense purposes.”
The statement made reference to the vital waterway that separates China from the self-governing isle republic it claims to be its own territory and reiterates the importance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait as vital to international security and prosperity.
China claimed in the comment issued through its official in Canada, where the two-day G7 meeting was held in La Malbaie, Quebec, that the affirmation “repeated the same old rhetoric, ignored facts and China’s grave position, greatly interfered in China’s domestic affairs, and plainly smeared China.”
” The statements reflect China’s repression, prejudice, and malicious intentions,” the statement states. China has solemn representations with the Canadian side and is deeply deplorable and opposed to this,” the statement read.
China possesses nearly the entire South China Sea, which passes through about$ 5 trillion in global trade. It has occasionally clashed with and dismissed other nations that claim maritime rights, particularly the Philippines, a U.S. treaty partner.
China is not a G7 member, but it closely monitors all remarks and references to its international status made by international organizations or in foreign nations, and uses harsh language to respond to criticism.
China has vehemently rejected a UN-affiliated court’s decision to invalidate the majority of its claims to Taiwan and asserts that it is non-negotiable even if China is forced to use force against the island.
China regularly launches surprise live-fire exercises in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand without giving any advance notice, has built military installations on human-made islands in the South China Sea, and regularly sends ships and warplanes into Taiwan’s airspace and waters.
49 commercial flights were forced to change their flight paths in response, and Australia’s aviation authority claimed it learned of the drills just 30 minutes before they started, not from Beijing but from a pilot flying in the area.
In its statement, the G7 did not mention the drills.
The G7 expressed” we share a growing concern” over recent, unjustifiable efforts to encroach on such freedom and expand jurisdiction through use of force and other forms of coercion, including in the South China Sea, Red Sea, and Black Sea.
China has three aircraft carriers and the largest navy in the world, with a fourth addition coming soon. The force’s reach has consistently expanded thanks to its base in Sheikhdom of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa.
