The British Foreign Secretary is preparing a new show of Western unity against Russia and China Liz Truss When she presided over the weekend meeting of G7 foreign ministers that started on Saturday.
The G7 meeting was held in the context of a potential invasion Ukraine, The tensions in the South China Sea and the potential collapse of the Iranian nuclear agreement were described by Truss as “an opportunity to show a united front against malicious actions-including Russia’s posture against Ukraine.”
Terrass will also pledge to provide security and economic support to defend “free borders” around the world, which refers to a series of Western infrastructure investment tools being assembled by the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom to provide China with a competitor.” The Belt and Road Initiative.
This will also give Truth once again the opportunity to present herself as a pragmatic modern Thatcher, and she is determined to let the West go ahead-if Boris Johnson loses confidence, this portrait will be in her backbench. Establish a good reputation in China.
US Secretary of State Anthony Brinken may also guarantee that Joe Biden will not provide him with substantive concessions. Russia Regarding NATO’s future role on the eastern front in this week’s talks with Vladimir Putin or the potential cession of Ukrainian territory. It is expected that French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian will urge Brinken not to rule out the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO.
Russia on Friday asked NATO to formally revoke the promises it made to Ukraine and Georgia at the Bucharest summit in 2008 that they might one day become members of the alliance.
At the same time, it is bound to discuss how to alleviate multiple crises and whether the West faces the risk of fighting on too many fronts at the same time.
For example, France has not joined some of the G7 partners—the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada—supporting a diplomatic boycott of human rights violations in China’s Xinjiang Province.
The two-day meeting will be the first time that the new German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has participated in a multilateral forum. She is the co-leader of the Green Party. She is paying close attention to how she intends to apply foreign policy to Russia and China.
Truss said: “Our goal is to expand the reach of freedom and democracy, and we compete with malicious actors around the world who try to challenge this.”
She said that if Russia invades Ukraine: “This would be an extremely serious strategic error, and it would have serious consequences for Russia and what we did with like-minded allies this weekend to clarify this.” Truss said, she thought Cooperate with Belbok on the Beixi 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany to reduce Western dependence on authoritarian regimes for energy and technology.
Regarding human rights violations in Xinjiang, China, she said: “The issue of genocide is a matter for the courts, but I am very concerned about the appalling human rights violations suffered by Uyghurs and have already told the Chinese ambassador about it.”
German takeover G7 Coming from the United Kingdom two weeks later, in view of the handover, it is expected that there will not be a long communiqué, but a relatively short presidential statement.
The foreign ministers of South Korea and Australia, not those of the G7 member states, will also attend, but mainly due to Covid travel, the plan to bring together all foreign ministers of the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) group has significantly reduced restrictions. Instead, they will link to the G7 meeting on Sunday through video.
Britain has always planned to focus its agenda on the tilt towards the Indo-Pacific region and the threat posed by China, but the Russian army gathering on the Ukrainian border needs to adjust the already crowded agenda.
There have been tensions in Southeast Asia over the degree to which countries in the region choose between the United States and China and how to deal with the Orcus issue. The security agreements between the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom mainly focus on the provision of nuclear-powered submarines for Australia.
The unexpected agreement announced in September canceled the previous Australian contract to purchase French submarines, causing an uproar in France. It is unlikely that French Foreign Minister JLe Drian will greet Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne with great enthusiasm during the meeting. This is since France considered Australia’s major betrayal. For the first time.
But Okus is likely to receive strong support from Japan’s new foreign minister, Ring Jizheng, during his first visit.
