Joe Biden focuses on China at G7 summit, bets on major infrastructure plan to counter regime advance

The president of the United States, Joe biden, puts China in the spotlight at G7 summit, which takes place in Carbis Bay (United Kingdom), and bet on a large infrastructure plan to counter Beijing’s advance.

This is what a senior US government official said on Saturday, who stressed that measures taken at the G7 should serve to position the United States and its allies to better compete with Beijing.

In this sense, one of the issues that the Biden administration emphasizes is the infrastructure.

“The United States and many of our long-time allies and friends around the world are skeptical of China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative”added the official.

This project aims revitalize the so-called Silk Road by modernizing infrastructure and telecommunications to improve connectivity between Asia and Europe.

US official said China is protesting with such initiative “A lack of transparency, poor labor and environmental standards and, of course, an approach that has left many countries worse off.”.

For this reason, he stressed, Washington and its G7 partners will announce this Saturday the initiative. “Building back better for the world” (Rebuilding Better for the World), a global infrastructure project as an alternative to “One Belt, One Road”.

The objective is go beyond the Chinese proposal “offering a better quality option”.

On the other hand, Biden is under pressure to get the world’s most industrialized group of democracies to adopt “Concrete action” against “forced labor” in Xinjiang.

The president wants to “make the world understand that these practices are a a grievance against human dignity and a scandalous example of unfair economic competition from ChinaThe source commented.

Therefore, he added, the United States sees “Crucial” to denounce forced labor in the Chinese province of Xinjiang (northwest), where the Uyghur minority lives.

The official indicated that China has been present throughout G7 summit talks started on Friday and will last until Sunday.

“The conversation is about this contest between what, as President Biden puts it, those who believe that autocracy is the best way for the future and those, like us, understand that democracies and shared values ​​are the best wayThe source said.

In this sense, he announced that the United States hopes that the final communiqué of the meeting reflects “these conversations”.

Another issue that Washington says is being addressed within the G7 is the cyber attacks with “ransomware”.

The official said that “there is a uniform recognition that ransomware and virtual currency abuse are an urgent threat, increasing “.

And he specified that within the framework of the G7 there was “Productive discussions” on this issue and the need to share information to prosecute these crimes and on the modernization of cyber defenses.

In recent weeks, the United States has been the target of two cyberattacks, perpetrated with “ransomware“, What It blocks computer systems, which are only released when the affected companies or institutions pay a ransom to hackers.

Last week the company JBS, the second largest meat processor in the United States, suffered one of these attacks and was forced to temporarily suspend operations.

JBS is responsible for 20% of beef and pork production in the United States and the closure of its factories raised concerns that it could affect distribution, but the company was quickly able to resume operations.

(With information from EFE)

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