Reuters: G7 mulls a message to China: the West ain't over just yet
* G7 discusses China in morning, Russia in afternoon
* West seeks broader alliance to counter China
* Blinken: We're not trying to hold China down
* Raab: we want broad alliance of democracies
LONDON, May 4 (Reuters) - The Group of Seven rich democracies will on Tuesday discuss ways of countering challenges from China and Russia without trying to contain Beijing or escalate tension with the Kremlin, two of its top diplomats said.
Founded in 1975 as a forum for the West's richest nations to discuss crises such as the OPEC oil embargo, the G7 is debating responses to the two vast and increasingly assertive countries as well as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change.
"It is not our purpose to try to contain China or to hold China down," U.S. President Joe Biden's secretary of state, Antony Blinken told reporters on Monday ahead of the first in-person G7 foreign ministers meeting since 2019.
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WNU Editor: What a difference a year or two makes. When President Trump was in the White House he tried multiple times to get fellow G7 members to step up to counter China, and they rebuffed him. Now .... they are all scrambling together to find a workable formula to counter the challenges that China and Russia are presenting to the G7 and the "global order".
