Beijing on Tuesday dismissed the communiques coming out of the G7 and NATO summits, accusing Western countries of forming a 'clique' to suppress China's development.
The document also made a historic mention of peace and stability in theThe communique seeks to"wantonly smear China and blatantly interfere in its internal affairs," said Zhao, who expressed Beijing's"firm opposition" to the joint statement by"a handful of countries."
"The United States is sick, very sick," Zhao said in China's harshest criticism of the Biden administration to date."The Group of Seven should take America's pulse and prescribe medication." Zhao's remarks about a"sick" Washington were cut from the English-language readout released by CGTN, the international arm of China's state broadcaster CCTV.on Monday. A spokesperson for the office chided the G7's attempt to build an anti-China"clique," which it said was"intentionally sowing confrontation and division."
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, President of the European Council Charles Michel, President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, French President Emmanuel Macron, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, pose for the leaders official welcome and family photo during the G7 Summit in Carbis Bay, on June 11, 2021, in Cornwall, England.
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