Meeting in London for the anticipated G7 summit, the U.S., U.K, Japan, France, Germany, Italy and Canada, 58-year-old Secretary of State Tony Blinken and 44-year-old Brutish Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab turned the meeting into a roast for Russia and China, accusing both countries of violating international norms, the so-called “rules-based order,” attacking China for what they call genocide on Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjian province, persecution of pro-Democracy activists in Hong Kong and threatening the sovereignty of Taiwan. China rejects any Taiwan independence, insisting that Taiwan, the Democratic Republic of China [DRC] is sovereign territory of Communist China. Since the 1949 end of the Maoist Revolution, Taiwan was recognized as an independent state backed by the United States, becoming one of Asia’s most prosperous and technologically advanced countries.
When it comes to Russia, the G7, led by Blinken and Raab, spent most of the three days ripping Russian President Vladimir Putin for threatening to seize more territory in Ukraine. With Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping watched Blinken and Raab assemble a coalition of the willing to confront Russia and China, looking to Australia to partner in case of any Chinese incursion into Taiwan. Australia’s media leaked a confidential report from April 2020 from Maj. Gen. Adam Findlay telling Special Forces that he through there was a high probability that they would go to war with China over Taiwan. Using the G7 as a war-mongering platform puts Russia and China on a war footing, knowing that the Western Alliance was busy scheming how to stave off any aggressive move by either Russia and China. Much was made at the G7 of Chinese and Russian propaganda.
Blinken and Raab spend considerable G7 time on how they would confront Russian and Chinese disinformation. Presenting the G7 as a kind of mini-NATO designed to resist Russian and Chinese advances, especially when it came to cyber-warfare and ongoing disinformation campaigns. “I think [China is] more likely to need to, rather that react in anger. It is more likely going to need to take a look in the mirror and understand that its needs to take into account this growing body of opinion that thinks these basic international rules have go to be adhered to,” Raab said. Raab and Blinken are very concerned with China’s interference with maritime shipping in the South and East China Seas and Taiwan Strait. Raab and Blinken see China intimidating its Pacific Rim neighbors building military installation in the shallow waters of the Spratly Islands.
Using primarily an economic meeting to solicit a coalition-of-the-willing to confront Russia and China turned the G7 into an anti-China-Russia free for all. Since 1977, the G7 has been and engine of economic development for the world’s richest countries. “We will work collectively to foster global economic resilience in the face of arbitrary, coercive economic policies and practices,” G7 ministers said about China. Calling attention to tensions in the Taiwan Strait, the G7 ministers blamed China for provocative actions, prompting concerns about possible war with Australia. China has been engaged in naval drills in the Taiwan Strait, flying simulated bombing missions over the region. Taiwan has little recourse except complaining to the U.S. to enforce the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, assuring Taiwan that the U.S. would commit to defending the island nation from a Chinese invasion.
When it came to Russia, the G7 focused on Russia’s aggressive actions near the border with Eastern Ukraine. “We are deeply concerned that the negative pattern of Russia irresponsible and destabilizing behavior continues,” the G7 ministers, mentioning nothing about Putin withdrawing some 50,000 troops from the border region. No one in the G7 acknowledged the Feb. 22, 2014 CIA-backed coup against 70-year-old former duly elected, Kremlin-backed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Putin watched helplessly while he hosted the Sochi Winter Olympics, then pounced on Crimea March 1, only days after the closing ceremonies. Putin has warned the Western Alliance, especially NATO, to stay out of Ukraine or face more consequences, including possible annexation of Russian-speaking territories in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine. No one in the G7 sees Putin’s point of view.
Turning the G7 into a hate-fest against Russia and China, Blinken and Raab pushed U.S.-Russian-Chinese relations to the brink. When Australia worries about war with China, 78-year-old President Joe Biden and Blinken have done everything to antagonize the world’s two most powerful superpowers, next to the U.S. No mention at all was made of Putin pulling Russian troops out of the border zone between Eastern Ukraine and Russia. Instead us using the G7 for its chartered purpose of economic cooperation, it was used to develop a coalition of the willing to confront China if it makes any move on Taiwan. Only briefly did the G7 take up the paucity of vaccines available in Europe, where the continent lies far behind the U.S. in vaccine availability. G7 ministera missed a golden opportunity to help lower the tensions with Russia and China, instead, made things a lot worse.
