looking into the story and joins me. great to get you on the show. what is on the agenda could it s a three day meeting, as you mentioned in a resort town about two hours from tokyo. it s a meeting about the foreign ministers of the g7 nations. last night, at a dinner, we saw the video link committee eu s top foreign policy official, high representative address the g7 foreign ministries and he said that when it comes to china and its relationship going forward, china needs to decide how it wants to be seen and china needs to decide how it wants to be seen wants to be seen and how it wants to be seen and how it wants to wants to be seen and how it wants to continue wants to be seen and how it wants to continue to - wants to be seen and how it| wants to continue to interact with the international community. he said that china is a partner, a competitor, a strategic rival, and as it navigates going forward, particularly surrounding taiwan, that impact its relationship with
to be the top of the agenda. we saw, for example, last week what was called a simulated encirclement, a huge high scale encirclement, a huge high scale encirclement of taiwan from beijing. many saying that this has been quite a provocative gesture. beijing, for its part, sees taiwan as part of its territory and hasn t ruled out reclaiming this territory whereas taiwan for its part of a democratically elected and they see the democratic governance as being vital to its continuation. the delicate balance here for g7 nations is going to be balancing politics and the economy. many countries, for example, have one that nick wanted to court beijing separately. we saw the president of france, and trying to build deals and ties committed apprentice coming across as a united front. we heard that it is a common and concerted effort, but as i say, it s that delicate balance