President Biden said Sunday that the G-7 has taken “plenty of action” against China’s human rights abuses against 1 million Uighurs in the country — even as China appeared not to head the message, warning the gathered leaders that the time of a “small” group of countries having authority over global decisions is “long gone.”
Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs pressed Biden on whether the G-7 leaders’ response to China’s alleged human rights violations in Xinjiang Province was strong enough.
“The final language in the G-7 communique does have some mention of China … but I know it’s not as tough as you and your team wanted it to be. … Why isn’t it as tough? There isn’t very much action in it,” Jacobs asked.
“As you know, the last time the G-7 met, there was no mention of China. But this time, there is mention of China,” Biden answered in a post-summit solo press conference.
“The G-7 explicitly agreed to call out human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong. I know this is going to sound somewhat prosaic, but I think we’re in a contest, not with China per se, but a contest with autocrats, autocratic governments around the world, as to whether or not democracies can compete with them in the rapidly changing 21st century.
“I think there’s plenty of action on China,” he insisted.
But a spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in London told Reuters, “The days when global decisions were dictated by a small group of countries are long gone.”
The spokesperson continued: “We always believe that countries, big or small, strong or weak, poor or rich, are equals, and that world affairs should be handled through consultation by all countries,” according to the report.
Biden earlier attended Mass and in the late afternoon headed to Windsor Castle for tea with Queen Elizabeth.
The Chinese government has been accused of enslaving and abusing about 1 million Uighurs, which the government has denied. The Biden administration has attempted to center the seven-country summit around infrastructure and China’s abuses of the ethnic minority and others.
“President Biden and leaders agreed to a set of concrete actions around key priorities responding to forced labor in global supply chains, the ransomware threat, and fighting corruption,” the White House stated Sunday of the summit.
“The United States and our G7 partners remain deeply concerned by the use of all forms of forced labor in global supply chains, including state-sponsored forced labor of vulnerable groups and minorities and supply chains of the agricultural, solar, and garment sectors — the main supply chains of concern in Xinjiang.”
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