G-7 Leaders Respond to China’s Economic Bullying at Hiroshima Summit, Warn of ‘Consequences’

(L–R) Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, U.S. President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen participate in a family photo before the G-7's working lunch meeting on economic security at the Grand Prince Hotel in Hiroshima on May 20, 2023. Jonathan Ernst/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

HIROSHIMA, Japan—Economic security was a major focus on the second day of the G-7 summit of leading industrial nations in Hiroshima, with leaders outlining actions to counter Beijing’s “economic coercion” and non-market practices.

The G-7 countries—the United States, the UK, Japan, Canada, Germany, France, and Italy—announced on May 20 their plan to address the “disturbing rise in incidents of economic coercion.”