Top diplomats from the G-7 are tackling two major worries in Northeast Asia by vowing to take a tough stance on China's threats to Taiwan and North Korea's flurry of long-range missile tests. Russia’s war in Ukraine is also on the agenda.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, left, speaks to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the start of the first working session of a G7 Foreign ministers' meeting at a hotel in Karuizawa, Nagano prefecture, Japan Monday, April 17, 2023. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, left, speaks to U.S.
KARUIZAWA, Japan — Top diplomats from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies are vowing a tough stance on China’s increasing threats to Taiwan and on North Korea’s unchecked tests of long-range missiles, while building momentum on ways to boost support for Ukraine and punish Russia for its invasion.
Russia’s war in Ukraine will consume much of the agenda Monday as the envoys gather in this Japanese hot spring resort town for Day Two of talks meant to pave the way for action by G-7 leaders when they meet next month in Hiroshima. The world is at “turning point” on the fighting in Ukraine and must “firmly reject unilateral attempts to change the status quo by force, and Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and its threats of the use of nuclear weapons,” Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi told his colleagues, according to a Japanese summary.
For the American delegation, the meeting comes at a crucial moment in the world’s response to Russia’s invasion of
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