The West Is Strategically Reorganizing to Fight Communist China

(C-L) British PM Boris Johnson, U.S. President Joe Biden, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga, European Council President Charles Michel, Italian PM Mario Draghi, Australia's PM Scott Morrison, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in attend a working session during the G-7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, UK, on June 12, 2021. Leon Neal/Pool via Reuters

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Recently, three major summits in the Western world—those of the G-7 (Group of Seven), NATO, and the U.S.–EU—have been held back-to-back, highlighting a significant strategic shift to confront the systemic threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). If 2020 was a year marked by a pandemic ravaging the world and the emergence of a new Cold War between the United States and China, 2021 will be one in which a strategic reorganization is being forged in the West to fight communist China.