China News Service, June 30th. The US "Politico" magazine published an opinion article on the 28th, saying that the G7 summit held in Germany failed in all aspects.

G7 leaders boasted of unprecedented common goals in addressing challenges such as the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and climate change, but in fact their solutions appeared to be "contradictory" and "self-reliant".

On June 28, during the G7 summit, leaders of many countries attended the meeting.

"Failed in all respects"

　　The article pointed out that climate change is "killing" glaciers and reshaping the planet, which has been the top priority of the G7 for many years.

But with the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, rising inflation, global food shortages and soaring energy costs, G7 leaders are once again intimidated, even distracted, by the immediate "priority".

　　This time, when the G7 leaders ended their talks, they appeared to be only "tinkering" on the fringes, but "failed on all fronts" -- powerless to stop prices from getting out of hand, powerless to stop glaciers from melting, or even to end logarithms Blockade of millions of tons of Ukrainian grain...

　　While G7 leaders boasted unprecedented common goals in addressing all these challenges, some of the solutions they supported appeared to be "contradictory" and "self-reliant".

FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian soldiers inspect ammunition abandoned by Russian troops as they retreated after the latest battle, near the village of Berezivka, Ukraine.

On the Russian-Ukrainian issue: "rhetoric"

　　The article noted that the focus of the G7 summit was mainly on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

Russia is present in nearly every conversation of G7 leaders.

　　Although before welcoming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into the discussion via an online video, G7 leaders had announced a new package of military and financial aid, promising to "continue to help as long as it is needed."

But the article argues that the amount of support it has taken so long to come out is questionable, and there are signs of disagreement within G7 leaders over how to deal with Putin.

　　On the other hand, the G7 summit failed to break the deadlock on blocked food shipments and made no progress.

The article argues that this hints at a "greater failure" by G7 leaders for failing to move forward with many major policy goals.

Data map: The picture shows local time on February 16, 2022, Antarctica. Due to global climate change, the glaciers on Horseshoe Island in Antarctica are melting.

Image source: Visual China

Talking about climate change: bragging instead of promises

　　The article also pointed out that in dealing with climate change, G7 leaders have failed to convincingly explain how to achieve the goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions by nearly half by 2030.

　　The G7 summit also has little discussion about a date for phasing out coal.

In contrast, Germany and other EU countries recently said they would temporarily restart coal-fired power plants to increase power supply.

　　That's despite a $600 billion infrastructure plan at the G7 summit that supports the creation of a global "climate club" by the end of 2022 and targeted interventions in coal-hungry economies.

But the article argues that all of the above issues have "little details and funding."

　　Polish climate activist Dominica Lasota, who was heading to the G7 summit, commented that not seeing "bold commitments", "We just saw six or seven people bragging about who was more positive about the summit and who had better shirts, Who can fly a helicopter." (End)