G7 summit statement will take aim at ‘challenge China poses’, US national security adviser says
- Beijing’s non-market economic practices, approach to debt and human rights actions set to be addressed in communique issued from meeting in Germany
- ‘We’re not looking for a Cold War, and we’re not looking to divide the world into rival blocs,’ adds Jake Sullivan, noting another Xi-Biden dialogue looms
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has warned the statement coming out of this week’s G7 summit will take aim at China, yet stressed that Western nations sought neither confrontation with Beijing nor to divide the world into rival blocs.
“[W]e do think that there is increasing convergence, both at the G7 and at Nato, around the challenge China poses and around the need – the urgent need for consultation and especially alignment among the world’s leading market democracies to deal with some of those challenges,” Sullivan said on Monday.
However, Sullivan stated that “competition does not mean confrontation or conflict”.
“We’re not looking for a Cold War, and we’re not looking to divide the world into rival blocs and make every country choose,” he added.
“We want to stand for a set of principles, rules of the road that are fair and understood and agreed by everybody,” Sullivan said. “And we want to ensure that we’re working with like-minded partners to hold China accountable to adhere to those rules.”
“It’s not going to be immediately after the G7,” he added, without elaborating.