BEIJING, May 19 (Chen Caixia) From 19th to 21st local time, the leaders of the Group of Seven gathered in Hiroshima. Here, they will discuss issues such as the Ukrainian crisis, global energy and AI.

　　However, before the summit was held, the protests of "No G7" and "No war accomplice" were endless. Japan, the host of this time, wants to use the opportunity of hosting the G7 summit to bring in "private goods" and put pressure on China and Russia.

　　Is it a political meeting or a political performance? The summit revealed multiple intentions.

　　Intention 1:

　　Japan wants to be "the leader of East Asia"

　　As we all know, Hiroshima was the place where the atomic bomb exploded during World War II. From the location of the G7 summit, we can see the "small abacus" played by Japan.

　　Time magazine pointed out that Japan, the host country, hopes to use "the tragic history of this city to convince the most powerful democratic countries in the world." Only when they unite can they cope with the so-called "threats from Russia, China and North Korea".

　　But Japan seems to forget that the country that dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries, was the United States.

　　Japan hopes to take this G7 summit to enhance its regional dominant position, show the international community that Japan has deepened its "Indo-Pacific concept" and demonstrated its sense of international existence, and at the same time, echo and cooperate with the "Indo-Pacific strategy" of the Biden administration of the United States again, and its purpose is obvious.

　　This time, in addition to the original "small circle" of G7 — — Japan, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Canada and Italy, as the rotating presidency this year, Japan has also brought in eight "foreign aid" venues, including South Korea, Australia, India and Brazil.

　　During a series of diplomatic tours at the beginning of the year, Kishida constantly played up the "China threat" and the situation in East Asia with the leaders of G7 and other countries. He repeatedly stressed that Japan is worried about the current regional security situation and even openly threatened that "East Asia will become the next Ukraine".

　　Kishida declared that Japan will become the "leader" of the East Asian order. He also stressed that Japan should continuously deepen its interaction with the United States and NATO, and will fundamentally strengthen its "defense capability."

　　Intention 2:

　　Manipulate nuclear issues

　　According to the Kyodo News Agency, the first day of the G7 summit will publish an outcome document related to nuclear disarmament. Among them, we will take the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) as the basis of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, strengthen the nuclear non-proliferation regime, and create momentum for the "nuclear-weapon-free world" advocated by Kishida.

　　The analysis points out that Japan, while claiming to send a peaceful message of abolishing nuclear weapons to the world through the G7 summit, plays the role of a pawn of the United States and tries its best to seek "nuclear sharing" with the United States to achieve "national security", which shows Japan’s contradictory psychology.

　　In addition, the summit also announced that "Russia’s nuclear threat" was listed as an issue. In this regard, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Zacharova said that this practice is against common sense.

　　"This is Hiroshima. Imagine that the bottomless line of the United States meets the sad and absurd decision of the Japanese organizer, which is shocking."

　　Zacharova mentioned at a news conference that there is documentary evidence that the United States had planned to launch nuclear strikes against other Japanese cities besides Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

　　In recent years, Japanese right-wing politicians have been manipulating the nuclear issue, trying to push Japanese society to gradually abandon the tradition of nuclear taboo, regard the possession of nuclear weapons as a "normal" national security need, regard the deployment of nuclear weapons as a reasonable arrangement, and finally regard the development of nuclear weapons as a "natural" choice.

　　"The direction of them (Japan) is very clear, and Japan is moving towards becoming a nuclear-armed country within five years." Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in an interview with The Economist in April that Japan has always "wanted to be close" to the United States.

　　Intention 3:

　　America’s wishful thinking

　　Earlier, it was speculated that Biden might cancel the G7 trip because the United States was facing a debt default crisis. However, he left behind the domestic "mess" and arrived in Hiroshima on Air Force One the day before the G7 summit.

　　According to the analysis, Biden will release the signal to the outside world at the G7 summit — — The United States can not only guarantee its strategic interests in the Ukrainian crisis, but also continue to build a "United front facing China" in the Asia-Pacific region.

　　Although the United States tried to "suppress" China with both fists in terms of security and economy, in the face of a series of domestic banking crises, debt ceiling disputes and even political violence, Biden had to announce that he would shorten his trip to Asia and cancel his scheduled visit to Australia and Papua New Guinea after the G7 summit.

　　The New York Times published an analysis article on 17th, saying that Biden’s shortening of overseas trip was "a manifestation that domestic politics in the United States undermined foreign policy, and it happened at a critical moment and in a key region".

　　Reuters also mentioned that Biden’s shortening of the Asian guild will hurt the credibility of the United States in the region.

　　Protests are everywhere.

　　G7 gangs harm others and harm themselves.

　　The G7 summit looks huge, but in fact, the differences and differences among member countries are becoming more and more obvious. French President Macron once said that Europe must reduce its dependence on the United States, resist pressure and stop being America’s "follower".

　　According to the analysis, with the economic strength and influence changing, it is impossible for G7 to dominate the world. If the G7 continues to stir up regional tensions and engage in factional confrontation, it will go against the wishes of most countries and will only harm others and yourself in the end.

　　In the past few days, the Japanese people have held many rallies in Hiroshima. They held various slogans and shouted slogans such as "Don’t be an accomplice in the war" and condemned the G7 summit for "military alliance" under the banner of "freedom and democracy".

　　There are also some Japanese people who say that the G7 summit will not bring peace, but will only bring deeper disasters to the world. If Japan keeps expanding its army, making military preparations and even seeking to possess nuclear weapons, it will only make Japan swallow the consequences of war again. (End)

　　People’s Daily Online, Beijing, July 17 (Reporter Li Qiaochu) Recently, data released by the customs showed that in the first half of this year, the total import and export value of China’s goods trade was 20.1 trillion yuan, up 2.1% year-on-year, and the scale exceeded 20 trillion yuan for the first time in the same period of history.

　　"This breakthrough was made in the context of the complicated and severe external environment and the slowdown of global trade and investment, as well as in epidemic prevention materials and ‘ Home economy ’ Pre-production ‘ One-time pulling factor ’ It is not easy to get it in the case of fading. " On July 13th, Lv Daliang, spokesman of the General Administration of Customs and director of the Statistics and Analysis Department, said at the press conference of the State Council Office that the World Trade Organization predicted that the global trade volume of goods would increase by 1.7% this year, which was significantly lower than the average of 2.6% in the past 12 years. Trade slowdown is a common challenge faced by all economies, and the difficulties are more global. Compared with the surrounding economies with published data, China’s foreign trade still shows strong resilience, and its competitive advantage is stable and consolidated.

　　This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative and the full entry into force of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP). The great development potential released by China’s further opening up is highly anticipated.

　　Wei Song, a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of International Studies of Beijing Foreign Studies University, said in an interview with People’s Daily that the national trade and RCEP along the "Belt and Road" came into full effect and continued to help China’s foreign trade stabilize its scale, optimize its structure and expand its market, as shown in the following aspects:

　　First, the scale of foreign trade continued to expand. In the past 10 years, the proportion of China’s imports and exports to countries along the Belt and Road has increased from 25% in 2013 to 32.9% in 2022 in China. Meanwhile, in the past 10 years, the trade between China and ASEAN has grown at an average annual rate of 9.9%, which is faster than the overall average annual growth rate of China’s foreign trade by 4.3 percentage points, and ASEAN has jumped from the third largest trading partner of China to the largest trading partner. After the entry into force of RCEP, many favorable policies, such as tariff reduction and exemption, cumulative rules of origin, have been implemented, and the economic and trade exchanges between China and ASEAN have become closer.

　　Second, the foreign trade structure has been continuously optimized. In 2022, China exported 4.44 trillion yuan of intermediate products to countries along the "Belt and Road", an increase of 23.9%, accounting for 56.3% of China’s total exports to countries along the route in the same period. Among them, the exports of textiles, electronic components, basic organic chemicals and auto parts increased by 14.5%, 21.1%, 31.3% and 24.6% respectively. In the same period, the total value of imported energy products and agricultural products was 2.46 trillion yuan and 370.41 billion yuan respectively, with growth rates of 58.8% and 13.4% respectively. In 2022, China’s import and export of intermediate products to other RCEP member countries was 8.7 trillion yuan, up by 8.5%, accounting for 67.2% of the total value in the same period. China’s export of mechanical and electrical products and labor-intensive products to other RCEP member countries increased by 13.2% and 20.7% respectively. China’s import structure from RCEP countries was mainly based on simple technology and intermediate technology-intensive manufactured products, and gradually upgraded to intermediate technology and high technology-intensive manufactured products. This aspect reflects that China’s position in the global manufacturing industry chain is constantly moving towards the middle and high end; On the other hand, it also shows the continuous strengthening of the overall scale and strength of China’s manufacturing industry.

　　The third is to promote market connectivity, accelerate the restructuring of the industrial chain, and promote the construction of a new development pattern. In the past ten years, with the joint efforts of all parties, the interconnection structure of "six corridors, six roads, many countries and many ports" has basically taken shape, and a large number of cooperation projects have taken root. China has signed more than 200 cooperation documents with 140 countries and 32 international organizations to jointly build the "Belt and Road". The total trade volume of goods with countries along the route has reached 10.4 trillion US dollars, and the non-financial direct investment in countries along the route has exceeded 130 billion US dollars, promoting the development strategy with countries and regions. At the same time, with the full entry into force of RCEP, ASEAN, as China’s largest trading partner, will bring greater convenience to the flow of factors, market connectivity and industrial integration between China and ASEAN, and help to accelerate the construction of a new "double-cycle" development pattern. Driven by RCEP, China and ASEAN will help to build a more innovative, higher added value and safer and more reliable industrial chain supply chain, and then become an important part of China’s international circular system.

　　According to customs data, in the first half of this year, the import and export of China’s Pilot Free Trade Zone and Hainan Free Trade Port increased by 8.6% and 26.4% respectively, and the role of open platform played an obvious role. On the basis of institutional opening, what supporting roles do the Pilot Free Trade Zone and Hainan Free Trade Port play in stabilizing China’s foreign trade?

　　Wei Song said that the Pilot Free Trade Zone and Hainan Free Trade Port are important measures for China to optimize the business environment and create a high level of opening up, which has a huge supporting role in stabilizing foreign trade:

　　First, it is conducive to the continuous promotion of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation. China’s free trade pilot zones are determined to forge ahead and explore boldly, and have achieved remarkable results. In the past ten years, China’s Pilot Free Trade Zone has expanded from 1 to 21, forming a pilot pattern covering east, west, north and south, and replicating and popularizing 278 institutional innovations throughout the country.

　　Second, it is conducive to the international economic and trade rules of elevation standards and steadily expand institutional opening. High-level openness is embodied in institutional openness such as rules, regulations, management and standards. It is the goal of the Pilot Free Trade Zone to adapt to the new situation, grasp the new characteristics, and strive to promote the institutional opening of rules, regulations, management and standards. Over the past five years since the establishment of Hainan Free Trade Port, more than 120 institutional innovations have been launched. Driven by a series of trade facilitation measures, China’s customs clearance efficiency has been continuously improved. The overall customs clearance time for imported goods has been reduced from about 4 days in 2017 to less than one and a half days now; The overall customs clearance time for export goods has been reduced from about 12 hours in 2017 to about 1.2 hours now. At the same time, China’s total tariff level is 7.4%, which is lower than the WTO commitment of 9.8%.

　　In the first half of this year, China’s "new three kinds" exports continued to increase. The total exports of electric manned vehicles, lithium batteries and solar cells increased by 61.6%, driving the overall export growth by 1.8 percentage points. In this context, how to further cultivate and consolidate industrial advantages and continuously gather new kinetic energy of foreign trade?

　　Wei Song said: First, we should vigorously promote the structural adjustment of foreign trade and promote the coordinated development of various foreign trade business entities. Encourage leading enterprises in the industry to extend the industrial chain and improve the level of international operation. Accelerate the formation of a number of large enterprises with transnational operation capabilities that allocate factor resources and lay out market networks on a global scale. Encourage the development of innovative, entrepreneurial and labor-intensive small and medium-sized enterprises, and support enterprises to take the road of "specialization and innovation" and coordinated development with large enterprises.

　　The second is to accelerate the promotion of international competitiveness of foreign trade. Accelerate the use of modern technology to transform traditional industries, improve the quality, grade and technical content of labor-intensive products, and push traditional industries to the middle and high end. Efforts should be made to build a technological innovation system with enterprises as the main body, market as the guidance and Industry-University-Research trade as the combination. Increase investment in scientific and technological innovation and support the original innovation of enterprises. Encourage enterprises to introduce advanced technology by means of import, overseas mergers and acquisitions, international bidding, recruiting talents and attracting talents, and promote digestion, absorption and innovation. Support domestic enterprises to set up overseas R&D centers through self-construction, joint venture and cooperation. Encourage multinational corporations and overseas scientific research institutions to set up R&D institutions in China. Strengthen the comprehensive competitive advantages of equipment manufacturing industries such as electric power, rail transit, communication equipment, ships, construction machinery, aerospace and large-scale complete sets of equipment exports, and strive to expand the export of investment commodities. Further improve the international competitiveness of strategic emerging industries such as energy conservation and environmental protection, next-generation information technology and new energy. Expand the import of advanced technology and equipment, key parts and components, and promote the adjustment, optimization and upgrading of industrial structure.