G-7 Leaders Take Strong Stance on China, but Can They Maintain Their Resolve?

The way the G-7 countries have addressed China together, according to a report by the experts of the Atlantic Council, was “unthinkable” two years ago.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made countering China’s economic coercion a top goal, and during the summit, the leaders announced the launch of a new “Coordination Platform on Economic Coercion.”

This new platform is particularly noteworthy, according to Stephen Ezell, vice president of global innovation policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a Washington-based technology think tank, because it “shows that G-7 countries are willing to coordinate to collectively come to one another’s defense in the face of Chinese economic coercion,” he told The Epoch Times.

China’s efforts to use its growing economic might to influence governments throughout the world have increased in recent years.