G7 faces backlash from Russia and China over perceived containment efforts

Russia and China have criticized the G7 summit in Hiroshima, where leaders pledged new measures targeting Russia and spoke in one voice on their growing concerns over China. G7 member countries made the group’s most detailed articulation of a shared position on China to date, stressing the need to cooperate with the world’s second-largest economy, but also to counter its “malign practices” and “coercion” in a landmark joint communique. Leaders also pledged new steps to choke off Russia’s ability to finance and fuel its war, and vowed in a dedicated statement to ramp up coordination on their economic security.