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Xinjiang: Joe Biden to urge G7 to act on China’s use of forced labour
- US wants ‘like-minded allies … to take tangible and concrete actions that show our willingness to coordinate on non-market economies, such as China’, deputy national security adviser Daleep Singh says
- The ‘galvanising challenge for the G7 is to show that … democratic societies still have the best chance of solving the biggest problems in our world’, he says
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The United States will urge its Group of Seven (G7) allies to increase pressure on China over the use of forced labour in its northwestern Xinjiang province, home to the Muslim Uygur minority, a top White House official said on Friday.
US President Joe Biden will attend a meeting of the G7 advanced economies in person in Britain in June, where he is expected to focus on what he sees as a strategic rivalry between democracies and autocratic states, particularly China.
Daleep Singh, deputy national security adviser to Biden and deputy director of the National Economic Council, said the G7 meeting in Cornwall would focus on health security, a synchronised economic response to the Covid-19 pandemic, concrete actions on climate change and “elevating shared democratic values within the G7”.
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“These are like-minded allies and we want to take tangible and concrete actions that show our willingness to coordinate on non-market economies, such as China,” said Singh, who is helping to coordinate the meeting.
“The galvanising challenge for the G7 is to show that open societies, democratic societies still have the best chance of solving the biggest problems in our world, and that top-down autocracies are not the best path,” he said.
The G7 comprises Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States. The European Union is also represented within the group.
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