Quad leaders representing Australia, India, Japan and the United States gathered Saturday evening for a scaled-back, hastily convened meeting in Hiroshima after Biden had scrapped a planned trip to Australia amid the debt ceiling standoff.
“Japan. G7. Important meetings with partners and friends of Ukraine. Security and enhanced cooperation for our victory. Peace will become closer today,” he tweeted moments after arriving before heading to a dizzying round of bilateral meetings with leaders at the summit.
“We reaffirm our unwavering support for Ukraine for as long as it takes to bring a comprehensive, just and lasting peace,” the communique read. “A growing China that plays by international rules would be of global interest. We are not decoupling or turning inwards,” the communique read. Western leaders and officials were more direct in framing the measures as a response to threats from China in comments made around the statement.
China has already pushed back ahead of G7 discussions, with its Foreign Ministry on Thursday posting a more than 5,000 word document on its website that reached back as far as 1960s Cuba to point to what it described as examples of “America’s Coercive Diplomacy and Its Harm.” “It is not hidden that the existence of Russia as an independent center is incompatible with achieving the goal of the global dominance of the West,” he said in a speech before the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy.Climate change was also a major theme of this weekend’s gathering with the joint communique including a pledge that the G7 would drive the economic transition to clean energy.
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