‘If China does not want these issues to be referenced, it should first respond more positively.’ — Japan’s envoy counters China’s protest to G-7 statement

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1. Envoy riposte:^1,2

   >BEIJING – Beijing summoned Hideo Tarumi, Japan’s ambassador to China, on Sunday to lodge a “solemn” protest over references to Taiwan and other issues related to the nation in Group of Seven statements made at a summit in Hiroshima, while the envoy offered a counterargument, the two countries said.

   >Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong expressed Beijing’s “strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition” over the statements issued during the G-7 summit hosted by Japan, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said. Tarumi told Sun it is “only natural” that such references were made and urged China to change course, the Japanese Embassy said.

   >Tarumi told Sun that unless China changes its behavior, G-7 countries will continue to voice their common concerns about Beijing.

   >“If China does not want these issues to be referenced, it should first respond more positively,” the embassy quoted the envoy as saying.

   ^1 “China summons Japan envoy to protest G-7 statement, Tokyo counters”, https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2023/05/c4a37987d571-china-summons-japan-envoy-to-protest-g-7-statement-tokyo-counters.html

   ^2 G7 Hiroshima Leaders’ Communiqué (2023). https://www.g7hiroshima.go.jp/documents/pdf/Leaders_Communique_01_en.pdf

2. Based AF

3. I continue to be fascinated with dictatprships and their absolute obsession with the word “resolute.”