Leaders of the Quad group of countries, an informal alliance between Australia, India, Japan and the US, criticized China without naming it at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan on Saturday.
US President Joe Biden and the other three Quad leaders did not explicitly mention China, but the Asian giant was apparently the subject of a statement calling for “peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific maritime region”.
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Leaders of the Quad group of countries, an informal alliance between Australia, India, Japan and the US, criticized China without naming it at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan on Saturday.
US President Joe Biden and the other three Quad leaders did not explicitly mention China, but the Asian giant was apparently the subject of a statement calling for “peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific maritime region”.
“We firmly oppose destabilization or unilateral actions that tend to change the status quo by force or coercion,” the statement said, in an indirect allusion to China’s actions in this region of the world considered by Western countries to be a source of instability. keep.”
“We express our deep concern about the militarization of disputed areas, the dangerous use of military or coast guard vessels, and attempts to destabilize offshore resource exploitation activities of other countries,” the text indicated.
The statement refers to China’s construction of bases on disputed reefs and harassment of ships in waters claimed by Beijing, particularly in the South China Sea.
The leaders of the Quad group met on the sidelines of the G7 summit (the United States, Germany, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Italy).
