Beijing, 5 May (Zhongxin Net) -- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin presided over a regular news conference on 12 May.

A reporter asked: According to people familiar with the matter, G7 member states will announce that they will jointly deal with "economic coercion" in order to send a signal to China. What is China's comment on this?

Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin. Photo by Xue Wei

Wang Wenbin: When it comes to economic coercion, the first person who should be denounced is probably the United States. The United States has repeatedly generalized the concept of national security, abused export control measures, and adopted discriminatory and unfair practices against enterprises of other countries, which seriously violated the principles of market economy and fair competition.

According to media reports, from 2000 to 2021, US foreign sanctions increased by 933%. The Trump administration alone has imposed more than 3900,3 sanctions in four years, equivalent to waving the "sanctions stick" an average of three times a day. As of fiscal year 2021, more than 9400,40 sanctions have been imposed in the United States. The United States has imposed unilateral economic sanctions on nearly <> countries in the world, affecting nearly half of the world's population.

Indeed, other G7 members are not immune to U.S. economic coercion and bullying. Enterprises of US allies such as Japan's Toshiba, Germany's Siemens, and France's Alstom have all been targets of US suppression. If the G<> is going to put "dealing with economic coercion" on the agenda, I suggest that we start by discussing what the United States is doing.

When Japan hosts the G7 summit, can it express some injustice to the United States on behalf of other member states that have also suffered bullying by the United States? Or at least a few words of truth?

China itself is a victim of economic coercion by the United States, and we have always firmly opposed other countries' economic coercion, and we urge the G7 to adapt to the general trend of the open and inclusive era, stop engaging in closed and exclusive "small circles", and not be complicit and accomplice of economic coercion. (End)