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G7 calls out China over Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Taiwan - draft communique
Group of Seven leaders called on China to respect human rights in its Xinjiang region, allow Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy and refrain from any unilateral action that could destabilise the East and South China Seas, according to a draft version of the G7 summit communique seen by Reuters. The re-emergence of China as a leading global power is considered to be one of the most significant geopolitical events of recent times, alongside the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union that ended the Cold War. But the return of China as a global power has unnerved the United States: President Joe Biden casts China as the main ... (full story)