After Trump proposed G2, French President Macron seems to be a bit restless! Foreign media have exposed that Macron is planning a big plan, inviting China to attend the G7 meeting! On November 13, Bloomberg in the US reported that Macron is considering inviting China to attend the G7 summit next year. The G7 summit next year will be held in France, and foreign media said that France has already discussed this idea with some allies. Why does Macron have this plan? There are mainly two reasons.
The first reason is that the French government is struggling domestically, and diplomacy is the only card left for France to exert its influence, which helps to enhance France's importance in international affairs. The second reason is that foreign media bluntly stated that the G7 group is increasingly marginalized, and with the US missing the G20 summit this month, Trump lacks the motivation to attend the G7, so France hopes to increase the probability of Trump's attendance.
In fact, foreign media revealed that Macron has a plan to visit China in December, and during this visit, Macron may make such an invitation face-to-face. Of course, from the perspective of France, France indeed has the motivation to do so. However, the probability of China attending the G7 meeting is very low. From the structure of the G7 meeting, this organization is a club of wealthy countries, which is not consistent with our position of standing firmly with the majority of Southern countries. Moreover, for a long time, Western countries have dominated the discourse through this organization, repeatedly expressing an unfriendly stance towards China on issues such as the Ukraine-Russia war and supply chains.
This organization lacks topics for cooperation with us, and if we attend, it would actually be like giving France a lift, which we are not interested in sitting at the same table with the G7. Obviously, France's idea clearly shows one point: China's influence is growing, and France also understands that key issues cannot be bypassed by China. In addition, the US has mentioned G2 more than once, which has made Europe, which has always stood together with the US and believed in controlling global dominance, feel a great sense of loss. Macron intends to use China to boost France's and Europe's influence, but such an idea is unlikely to be realized and cannot solve the fundamental problems facing Europe.
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