Biden “New Rules We Set”… Merkel responds to Chinese sniper

US President Joe Biden snipered China in a full-fledged return to the international arena. In the results of the seven major G7 summits, the policy of joint response to China was also specified.

On the 19th (local time), one month after his inauguration, President Biden continued to attend the G7 Summit and the Munich Security Conference held by video. In a video address of the Munich Security Conference “The United States is back. The Atlantic Alliance is back”Said. It confirms the end of the’America First’ that former President Donald Trump has been pursuing. Reuters reported, “A few years ago, Biden, who attended the Munich Security Conference as a civilian, announced that’the United States will return,’ and now declared that’the United States is back’.”

As if he was conscious of the fact that President Trump used threats by calculating even the alliance as a concept of transaction, President Biden emphasized that he would comply with the collective defense obligations stipulated in Article 5 of the Charter of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). “We will uphold our belief in this duty. Attacking one of us is like attacking all of us“I said.
What President Biden tried to urge through this was the need for a joint response to China and Russia. “We must prepare for a long-term strategic competition with China together,” he said. “Cyberspace, artificial intelligence (AI), and biotechnology are new areas of competition.”
In addition, the usual belief that China abuses the system and harms the global economic order was revealed again. “Companies in the US and Europe follow rules to prevent corruption and monopoly. The same standards must be applied to Chinese companies,” he said. “We must defend democratic values. In doing so, we must resist any attempts to make repression seem normal.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who followed in his speech, said, “Words alone are not enough. “It becomes the right thing to do when we act according to words,” he sent a message saying that European countries and the United States should respond consistently to China. Prime Minister Merkel also said, “Because China is both a rival and an essential partner for Western countries, it is a complex problem to respond consistently.” China has gained global influence in recent years, and we must take action to respondI emphasized.

Even at the G7 summit held earlier, the leaders agreed that countries that share democracy and free market economy values ​​should face the challenges of China and Russia together. Reuters “In the outcome of the G7 leaders’ summit, they decided to pursue a joint response to China to confront’non-market policies and practices’”He said. The result also stated that “in order to support a fair and reciprocal global economic system, we will particularly engage in the G20 countries, including China.”

As the G7 summit led by the U.S. sent a clear message that it would press China, the government fell into trouble. In June, the G7 Summit is scheduled to be held in the UK in a non-face-to-face manner, and President Moon Jae-in was also invited to accept it. At the non-face-to-face summit, there is a high possibility of sharpening criticism toward China, but even if it participates as a guest country, it is inevitably burdensome to the government that has valued relations with China.
That said, the G7 leaders make a single voice, but only Korea cannot tell a different story. This is the reason why President Biden urges us to become one under the value of democracy, and if we continue to show ambiguity about this, it could act as a factor of conflict between the ROK-US alliance.
Meanwhile, the G7 leaders increased the funding for the International Vaccine Joint Purchase Project (CoVax) promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) under the United Nations to $7.5 billion (approx. I agreed to try.
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