The G-7 Kowtow Communiqué to Communist China

European Council President Charles Michel, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, U.S. President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pose for a group photo after laying flower wreaths at the Cenotaph for Atomic Bomb Victims in the Peace Memorial Park on the sidelines of the G-7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on May 18, 2023. Franck Robichon/Pool/Getty Images

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Last week, as Chinese warships completed a coercive circumnavigation of Japan’s main islands, G-7 leaders met to forge a unified response to communist China’s ever-increasing economic and military aggression.