The United States will also call for the Group of 20 leading economies to keep their steel industries from getting so big that factories are underused, Lew said in a preview of the US message to the September 4-5 G20 summit in Hangzhou, China.
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In light of such ongoing persecution, China Aid president Bob Fu earlier this year accused the Communist regime of making a mockery of “basic justice” and urged the US leaders to use the upcoming G20 summit to urge Chinese leaders to release those imprisoned and end persecution against Christians across the country.
Balazs Ujvari, research fellow at the Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations, said alongside the G20 summit themes of finance and trade, there is a special focus on innovation as a driving force of growth.
In Kirton’s opinion, China’s leadership also lies partly in “its recurrent strong wisdom to adjust to the overwhelming consensus and the consensus of its partners to produce collective success”. “They have been forcing house churches not to meet ahead of the G20 summit”, said Zhang Mingxuan, the president of China’s House Church Alliance.
China agreed at the G20 trade ministers meeting to eliminate tariffs on a range of EGA goods, making it possible to move forward with this agreement.
China is now witnessing what many call its harshest political crackdown in decades and Zou Wei, a Hangzhou-based dissident, said the police had forbidden local activists from speaking against the ruling government so that it does not come as an embarrassment for the Communist Party before the G20 guests. “Here’s what China can play a very important role in showing the leadership, saying we need to resist these pressures and we need to do it in a way that’s realistic and smart”.
The presidents of the European Council, Donald Tusk and the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker have written a letter setting out what they would like to discuss with their G20 partners in Hangzhou.
An action plan to carry out the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is also what China has committed itself to the summit, which will put development at the top of the macro-policy agenda for the first time in G20 history.
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In his eyes, China can be both ambitious and realistic, while focusing on a few practical goals.
