Sixty-nine members of the Group of Seven (G7) parliament signed a joint letter on January 25 calling on the leaders of the seven countries to unite at the upcoming summit and take a tough stance against the Communist Party of China on economic, human rights, and science and technology issues. This is the first Time the G7 lawmakers have sent a joint letter to governments making the call.
In 2019, during preparations for the G-7 meeting
The main sponsors of the letter are U.S. Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (D-CA) and German Federal Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Norbert Röttgen.
Communist China poses “the greatest challenge since World War II”
The letter was addressed to the leaders of the Group of Seven countries – including the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom – at the G7 summit, which will take place June 11 to June 13 in the seaside resort of Carbis Bay in southwestern England.
“The threat of the Chinese Communist Party poses the greatest foreign policy challenge of our time. These threats affect not only our country, but our most trusted democratic allies around the globe.” Gonzalez’s statement said.
Norbert Röttgen, chairman of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee, has previously said that the Communist Party’s selective application of international law and its aggressive behavior in the Indo-Pacific region poses the greatest challenge to the international order since World War II. “We don’t want to be hostile, but rather advocate a realistic approach to China (the Chinese Communist Party).” Rütgen stressed.
He also called for “concessions that we must all make in order to achieve a joint strategy for the free world to deal with China (CCP), which (concessions) are worthwhile in order to protect the freedoms at the heart of the international system.”
Seven Countries Should Target CCP on Technology, Human Rights, Epidemics
In the letter, the lawmakers called on G-7 leaders to unite and develop plans to confront the CCP’s actions that are “inconsistent with international norms, both domestically and abroad.”
The letter identifies several issues that should be targeted at the Chinese Communist Party, including technology standards, human rights, tensions in the Indo-Pacific region and the current new Epidemic.
On technology, the letter stresses that democracies should not rely on the CCP for access to emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and next-generation wireless communications such as 5G. The lawmakers called on countries to cooperate on technology and set uniform standards in order to fully develop them without compromising security interests, and “coordinate partnerships among our countries to lead the development of these technologies and to set global norms and standards for their use.”
On the epidemic, the letter argues that the Chinese Communist Party has weakened international governance, disrupted the normal functioning of the World health Organization (WHO), and “withheld important information early in the pandemic.”
Evidence suggests that the virus originated in Wuhan, China, and then spread to countries and regions around the world. The initial cover-up of the outbreak by the Chinese Communist Party has been well documented, but the World Health Organization (WHO) began to echo Beijing‘s claims that the virus was not contagious and ignored Taiwan‘s email warning.
The letter reads, “In order to prepare and prevent future outbreaks, we believe that an independent investigation into the origin and spread of the virus is necessary.”
In the letter, the parliamentarians also stressed that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has imposed oppression on Uighurs and other minority groups, and that the CCP has committed serious human rights violations, and demanded that G-7 member states respond collectively to hold the CCP accountable for persecuting minority and religious believers.”
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