Xinhua News Agency, Warsaw, June 25th(International Observation) What are the West’s plans for the G7 and NATO summits?
Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Zhang Li Chao
The Group of Seven (G7) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will hold successive summits from the 26th. Analysts pointed out that the two summits exposed the attempts of Western countries led by the United States to use the G7 and NATO to dominate the international order. It is an irresistible trend of the times to seek cooperation and promote development. However, some Western countries such as the United States adhere to the Cold War mentality, and in order to maintain their hegemony, they form cliques to form “small circles”. This approach is going against the current and is doomed to fail.
Hegemonic thinking is exposed
The G7 summit will be held from the 26th to the 28th in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a small town in Bavaria, southern Germany, which holds the rotating presidency this year. The U.S. government previously announced that it would announce a global infrastructure initiative during the G7 summit, focusing on strengthening ties with countries in the Indo-Pacific region, thereby increasing its influence in the region.
Analysts pointed out that the United States often glorifies such initiatives in the name of “opening”, but the real intention of launching this initiative is to contain China and contain China’s development. The United States is trying to lure other countries, especially developing countries, to serve its own geopolitical purposes with “empty promises” of economic aid.
Today, the international community has seen the face of U.S. hegemony and clearly recognizes that there are no real benefits to participating in it. The National Public Radio website article said that although U.S. officials have begun to promote the initiative around the world, countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa have not found any actual action by the United States.
In addition, the Ukrainian crisis is also an important topic of this G7 summit. The summit invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders of non-G7 member countries to participate in the meeting, hoping to persuade these countries to change their stance on the Ukrainian crisis, so as to achieve “isolation of Russia”, but India and other countries insisted on a neutral position and refused to follow Western countries’ condemnation and Sanction Russia.
Analysts pointed out that, on the surface, the Ukrainian crisis has temporarily strengthened the “bundling” of many European countries with the United States. However, over time, it was discovered that European interests were sacrificed while American hegemony was maintained. At the same time, under the background of the current global energy shortage and high food prices, developing countries are reluctant to join the Western camp, because these countries are very clear that the political manipulation of the United States to engage in camp confrontation, containment and containment of “strategic opponents” is for the sake of Maintaining its own hegemony will not help solve a series of problems caused by the current Ukrainian crisis.
Cold War mentality harms the world
Immediately after the G7 summit, the NATO summit will be held in Madrid, the capital of Spain from 28th to 30th. The main topics of the summit include continuing to provide support for Ukraine, reviewing the issues of Finland and Sweden’s accession to the treaty, and adopting new strategic ideas to guide the development of the next decade, etc. .
NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg said a few days ago that NATO will call Russia a “threat to peace and security” at the Madrid summit and announce that Russia is no longer a partner of NATO.
NATO, led by the United States, regards other countries as a “threat”, but in fact NATO is a serious threat to world peace and security. As Vladimir Shapovalov, deputy director of the Institute of History and Politics of Moscow State Pedagogical University, said, NATO has served its own interests, and even carried out large-scale military operations more than once on territories not bordering its member states, NATO’s The “Russian threat theory” is completely untrue.
The NATO summit will also consider the issue of Finland and Sweden joining NATO. Earlier Turkey’s opposition made Stoltenberg, who had been optimistic that Finland and Sweden could quickly join NATO, became cautious. He said after talks with Finnish President Niinisto on the 12th that he took into account Turkey’s “concerns”. , NATO does not consider this summit to be “the deadline for the approval of Finland and Sweden to join NATO”.
In addition, the NATO summit also invited non-NATO members in the Asia-Pacific region – Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand to attend the meeting. On the one hand, NATO hopes to coordinate its position on Russia with these four countries, but more importantly, it is to win over the four countries to jointly suppress and contain China. NATO also plans to launch a new strategic concept during this summit, advocating the “China threat theory.”
Many Asia-Pacific countries believe that NATO’s overactivity in the region, containment of China, and the expansion of military and strategic alliances will have a negative impact on any country in the region, said Anuradha Chenoy, a professor at Jindal Global University in India. Unfavorable tensions could even lead to a regional arms race, which the entire region tried so hard to avoid even during the cold war.
Analysts pointed out that the Cold War has ended for more than 30 years, and NATO, the “legacy of the Cold War”, is still advocating group confrontation and provoking conflicts and contradictions in order to prove the necessity of its existence. What NATO has done is contrary to the theme of peace and development of the times, and it has long been out of date and should have been swept into the garbage heap of history.