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| #JunkG7 | ILPS Statement on the G7 Hiroshima Summit |
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#JunkG7 | ILPS Statement on the G7 Hiroshima Summit
05/24/2023 3 MIN READ#JUNKG7, CAMPAIGNS, ILPS CHAIRPERSON
We congratulate all the members of the International League
of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) and the International Peoples Front, for the
Peoples’ Summit to Counter G7 in Kyoto, Japan and accompanying
solidarity Global Days of Action held in several countries May 18-20,
2023.
Leaders of the G7 countries – Canada, France, Germany,
Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as the
European Union, met in Hiroshima this past weekend.
The G7 sought to make the Hiroshima Summit a platform for
the US drive against its rivals China and Russia. Moscow dismissed it as
a “propaganda show” while Beijing protested Japan’s “smear” and the
UK’s “slander”. At the G7 sideline, the US met its Quad partners Japan,
Australia and India for its so-called Indo-Pacific Strategy.
Commentators have previously called the G7 a “selfie summit”
while others criticize it for falling short on promises. While the
Summit pays lip service to a “free and open world” based on the rule of
law, it was the US and its allies who make their own rules. While there
are calls for disarmament, the G7 is on a war path.
The latest report from the Costs of War Project at Brown
University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs shows
that the post-9/11 US-led War on Terror may have caused at least 4.5
million deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria,
and Yemen.
Within the G7, differences are merely papered over. As they
cannot completely decouple from China, they just agree on “de-risking”
their China relations. In fact, the China led BRICS group of countries
has already overtaken the G7 in terms of global GDP.
The EU’s ‘Global Gateway’ and the G7’s own ‘Build Back
Better World’ (B3W) competing funding schemes never took off. China’s
trade with the EU and the US has dwindled by as much a third in the past
months. On the other hand, China’s trade with partners in the Belt and
Road Initiative is growing as well as with China’s Overseas Direct
Investment (ODI)
Taiwan’s trade with China is three times larger than with
the US. But arms sales of the US to Taiwan is close to US$10 billion in
the past three years, while Taiwanese people by far see themselves as
part of China, along with most of the world.
While G7 leaders met, the 22 members of the Arab League was
hosted by Saudi Arabia, and the first China-Central Asia Summit was held
in Xian. Major global regions, including Africa and Latin America are
no longer the realm of their old colonial empires.
The G7 Summit has become a relic of the past. The US and
its allies are desperate to hold on to its imperialist hegemony despite
the reality of a global economic and environmental crisis that cannot
be resolved whilst imperialism exists, growing global military
conflicts and people’s resistance right across the globe, including in
the home of U.S. imperialism itself.
It is imperative for the peoples of the world to remain ever
vigilant against the US and G7 war provocations. The people can stop
the wars by fighting back imperialism.##
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