BEIJING: The Group of Seven (G7) countries have announced the launch of the Build Back Better World (B3W) initiative, a global infrastructure development plan they said would meet the tremendous needs in low- and middle-income countries.
However, widely seen as a tool to counter China’s growing influence in many parts of the world, the plan is nothing but another product of the exclusive group’s deeply-entrenched ideological prejudice and confrontational thinking. As major industrialized countries with advanced technologies and abundant experience, the G7 is welcome to shoulder its due global responsibility to help poorer countries tackle pressing issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, and enhance their economic growth and development.
However, the ideologically-biased B3W plan makes the world skeptical about the G7’s true purpose: Will those rich countries follow their commitments and act sincerely like what they have elaborated in the statement, or is it just a political anti-China show under the guise of supporting global development? It is not strange that the international community feels suspicious. In recent years, some Western countries, especially the United States, have repeatedly hyped up the so-called “China threat,” deliberately creating confrontation and fueling conflicts between China and the rest of the world.
Their malicious acts have severely eroded mutual trust between countries and disrupted global solidarity and cooperation which are highly essential to and badly needed in the human race’s pursuit of sustainable and common development. – Agencies
