JAKARTA: This weekend, Japan is hosting the Group of Seven (G7) Trade Ministers Meeting in Osaka. The primary focus of the gathering is improving supply-chain resilience and strengthening export controls on critical minerals and technologies. But China s economic coercion, particularly the widespread disruption caused by its nontransparent and market-distorting industrial policies, is expected to be high on the agenda.
ceasing its assault. until then, excuse me, the ability, ukraine s ability to defend itself is essential to being able to end this war permanently and through diplomacy. you know, and this morning, i once more shared and assured president zelensky, together with all g7 members and our allies and partners around the world, that we will not waver. putin will not break our resolve, as he thought he could. two years ago, almost three years ago. we re going to continue to provide economic, humanitarian and security assistance to ukraine so it can stand strong as long as it needs it. and, today, the united states announced our latest tranche of artillery, ammunition, anti tank weapons and bridging equipment to help ukraine succeed in the battlefield. andrew small is a senior fellow on the indo pacific programme at the german marshall fund think tank. i asked him if he thought the g7 s main goals for this summit had been achieved.
The Group of Seven (G7) countries in June 2022 came out with a new programme - Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII) to meet the financial and technical needs for building quality infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries in order to end the dominance of China s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).