Putin Refuses to Return to G7 Proposal, One Sentence Made the Entire EU Silent!

Recently, there have been many voices from both Europe and Russia regarding the U.S.-proposed invitation for Russia to rejoin the G7. Some said that as long as Russia stops the war, this could be a reward. More EU countries expressed opposition to this proposal.

Recently, Putin clearly stated in a public speech: "Russia absolutely 'does not consider returning to G8'." Perhaps he felt that this statement was not strong enough, so he added: "The economic scale of some countries in the G7 is even less than that of India." —— This latter sentence probably made many EU countries furious, but they couldn't counter it. At present, the entire EU has not made any rebuttal to Putin's statement, because it is a fact.

According to the International Monetary Fund's 2024 statistics, India's nominal GDP has reached about $3.9 trillion, ranking fifth globally, behind only the United States, China, Germany, and Japan. Italy, a member of the G7, has a GDP of approximately $2.2 trillion; Canada has $2.1 trillion; and France has $3.0 trillion. In other words, the economic size of these three G7 members is indeed smaller than India. If calculated by purchasing power parity, India surpassed Germany and Japan as the world's third-largest economy as early as 2017.

Calculated this way, what Putin said is completely correct. In fact, since the Crimea incident in 2014, the G8 was frozen, and Russia was excluded, with the G7 becoming a multilateral mechanism led by the West again. However, after ten years, the global economic landscape has undergone profound changes. The share of the G7 in global GDP has declined from nearly 70% in the 1990s to less than 40% in 2024.

At the same time, the influence of emerging economies represented by the BRICS countries has continued to rise. India not only surpasses several G7 countries in GDP volume, but also shows strong momentum in multiple areas such as manufacturing exports, digital economy, and energy transition.

Original article: toutiao.com/article/1850635669745739/

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