Why can't these foreign media assert that the G7 infrastructure plan can't win

Editor's words: When Americans want to save the "Better World" plan, it has a great movement -pulling on several partners of the Seven Kingdoms Group (G7) to prepare for developing countries with the same values. U.S. President Biden announced at the G7 summit at the end of June that the "Global Infrastructure and Investment Partnership" Plan (PGII) project (PGII) was launched by US $ 600 billion before 2027. More than half a month passed, and many media still paid attention to this "grand plan" and asserted that it could not challenge China's "Belt and Road" initiative at all. "Global Times" reporters sorted out relevant information and learned about the true views of the "strategic plan" of the West through interviews with European, African people and Chinese scholars.

"The projects in the United States and Western countries are finally mirror flowers and water". "

Without exception, the German media will see the 600 billion US dollar "Global Infrastructure and Investment Partnership" plan announced by the G7 summit this year as a manifestation of directly competing with China's "Belt and Road" initiative. Comparison of "Highlights" Weekly's article: G7's infrastructure plan adheres to the "values ​​diplomatic" orientation, and the chairman of the European Commission Feng Delin said, "As a democratic country, we must unite" and have a meaningful institutional competition with China. From the perspective of specific projects, the United States currently only announces Angola's solar project, Senegal's international vaccine production facilities, Romania's miniature nuclear reactor development, etc. However, most projects are still planned. In contrast, China, which has been running for many years, " The Belt and Road Initiative has signed more than 200 "Belt and Road" cooperation documents with 149 countries and 32 international organizations as of April this year. The "Augsburg Report" quoted a German participating official who was unwilling to disclose his name, "The G7 summit often announced some magnificent plans, but it will soon be forgotten."

Even many American media bluntly stated that the G7's infrastructure plans cannot win China. The US "National Interest" two -monthly website recently published an article that the plan of the Seven Kingdoms Group will not defeat China in the competition, and even worse, it is ultimately "leaving developing countries to China." The reason is that in the past ten years, China as an infrastructure partner as a developing country not only willing and fully prepared, but also sufficient. The G7's infrastructure investment is based on values. According to the "strict standards" of G7, not many countries in Africa are eligible to obtain their investment.

The Russian "Independence" article believes that "it is not easy for the West to challenge the Silk Road." As the director of the Asian and African State Research Institute of Moscow National University, Alexese Muslov said: "It is difficult for the West to catch up with China's" Belt and Road ", let alone 'kill'. , China focuses on the construction of infrastructure in various countries, especially the construction of roads, bridges, and ports. And European and American projects cannot achieve such goals, because the United States and the European Union are not the main commodity producers now. Transportation. In addition, the G7 needs to give participants more than China, but this is not easy, because in African countries, China has been regarded as a reliable partner who fulfills their obligations.

"G7 launches the global infrastructure plan, can it compete with China 'Belt and Road" initiative? "The article by the Russian satellite news agency believes that although the G7 leaders have not directly mentioned China in the relevant speeches, many people's statements clearly clearly put China very clearly China. As a competitor, other Western countries have to show their attitudes under the pressure of the United States. Considering this infrastructure plan with strong purpose and ideological colors, there have also been launched too many in the United States and Western countries in the past, but in the end they are "mirror flowers and water". The effect of all the way.

Belicchk, a professor of the Department of Foreign Economic and Trade and the Department of National Economics of the School of Foreign Economic and Trade, believes that the Western global infrastructure plan is late. Within the framework of the “Belt and Road” initiative, China has signed many agreements with different countries and invested a lot of funds. The United States is trying to formulate plans to reduce the interest of political leadership and China in developing countries.

"There is no geopolitical solution with any hope"

The international business news agency "Quartz" published on July 13 that the G7 must catch up with China in Africa, but many international experts and authoritative think tanks have different views. John Carabrece, director of the Middle East and Asian projects in the United States University, believes that it is undeniable that the "global infrastructure and investment partnership" plan (PGII) is the product of the United States concentrating on firepower against China, reflecting the concerns of the G7 countries to China. "Although Individual African countries leaders also have such concerns, but as the beneficiaries are increasing, such voices have gradually become weak. " Ubi, head of the Institute of International Affairs of Nigeria, questioned: "Can the" Best World in the United States' "Best World" has fallen, can PGII a replacement and supplementary scheme? effort."

"Pan -African Network" commented on the topic of "Africa: Aid in the New Cold War" as a comment. It criticized Western countries that failed to keep their promises and difficult to eliminate in non -"trust deficits." The article said: "The West promised to use 0.7%of the total revenue of national revenue to develop foreign aid, but the United States is currently the country with the worst assistance in G7 countries. In 2021 0.18%of the income. The Syrian refugee crisis and the epidemic of new crown pneumonia have spread to find excuses for cutting assistance to large powers. Individual countries even "do fake accounts', and the costs of refugee resettlement and military operations are included in the cost of development aid. It looks very generous. Great ', but these facts have continuously aggravated the' trust deficit of Western countries in Africa. "" Pan -African Network "article also said that PGII hopes to use public funds to leverage private sector funds, and its financial solutions have debt risks. To make matters worse, the Western has long ignored developing countries' calls for the reorganization of multilateral sovereign debt reorganization in implementing fair and orderly implementation, refusing to repair unfair trade, taxes, and other economic and trade rules that are not conducive to poor countries. In this case, PGII is difficult to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development in Africa. On the contrary, it may bring disasters to some countries. China is now one of the world's largest development financing countries, and its contribution and importance to the entire world have continued to rise. The president of the International Monetary Fund Lagd also has confidence in promoting the global sustainable development of the "Belt and Road" and believes that this initiative can better help African countries achieve development.

"Can G7 drive China out of Africa?" The "Ethiopian Reporter" said that more and more African experts and officials believe that "PGII initiative shows that the West finally decided to try China 'formula" China 'Belt and Road' Influence in Africa. " Moreover, the development prospects of PGII are not optimistic, and they will face multiple challenges, especially how to "raise money" in the current situation of the global economic continued downturn. It may be a major challenge. There are also media media in African countries that although the PGII design is beautiful, various conditions, thresholds, and procedures are a heavy burden on African countries.

In an interview with the Global Times reporter, Professor BAS Oshio said: "PGII is obviously a geopolitical solution, and there will be no hope, because it is not with the development of development. The sincere concern of the Chinese country to conceive. Investment in the West cannot be as promised by China. The 'Belt and Road "initiative to help African countries develop infrastructure, improve transportation status, expand trade, obtain more external investment, and make more people around the world to reduce poverty in the world to reduce poverty worldwide Important contributions. The United States should stop regarding China as the threat of opponents or 'global peace and development.' Instead, it is necessary to work more about the existing global multilateral system construction with its allies. "

Wang Yili, the director of the Institute of International Affairs of Renmin University of China, told the Global Times reporter: "The United States wants the chief of the teacher to make China, and it is focused on the infrastructure, but it has three weaknesses. First, it is impossible to drive industrial development through infrastructure, because the United States has been vacuumized by its own industries. The infrastructure itself does not make money. In fact, the industrial cluster is created through infrastructure and interconnection. The logic of reform and opening up of roads, and China has the entire industrial chain, so the construction infrastructure is the highest efficiency and the lowest cost. Second, the United States is a private capitalism and is unwilling to invest in infrastructure. It will make bubbles. Third, any of the U.S. initiatives are 'dominated by me, I want to dominate', and it is high standard and exclusive, and does not respect the national conditions of other countries. Build and share ', so it violates the trend of the times and the development trend of globalization. "

In the "competition relationship", there must be "third -party cooperation"

After the G7 proposed a $ 600 billion "Global Infrastructure and Investment Partnership" plan, Zhao Yongsheng, a researcher at the National Institute of opening up of the University of Foreign Economic and Trade, and a researcher at the Institute of Global Innovation and Governance of Global Innovation and Governance, respectively. Workers have had exchanges, and the general feeling is that "the French do not pay much attention." He told a reporter from the Global Times that due to the impact of the epidemic and the conflict between the Russian and Ukraine, how to solve the problems such as rising prices, shortage of energy, and slow economic growth are the true "worries of people's livelihood" of the French. In addition, the French believe that this global infrastructure plan that Americans and the leading global infrastructure plans do not seem to be much as French.

However, Zhao Yongsheng also reminded that the plan of G7 cannot be seriously underestimated. The US $ 600 billion investment amount proposed in the United States should be carefully calculated and meticulous. Regardless of the US President from the Democratic Party or Republican Party 5 years, the strategic plan of the G7 may continue.

Zhao Yongsheng told the "Global Times" reporter: "G7's global infrastructure plan and the 'Belt and Road' proposed by China and China are generally 'competitive relationships', that is, both competition and cooperation." It is believed that from the wording of Biden, Feng Delin and others, all have the smell of gunpowder of "sword referring to China" and competing, but it is not difficult to see from the structural design of the G7 infrastructure plan. Competitiveness in the whole field, while strengthening complementarity with China. As some media are concerned, the G7's infrastructure plans are pillars: clean energy, digital Unicom, gender equality, and health systems. It seems to "wisely avoid direct competition in China's advantage." Of course, China is now leading in many aspects of the above four fields. However, the "Belt and Road" seems to be more major infrastructure in G7 countries, such as high -speed rail and highways. Zhao Yongsheng, who has lived and worked in France and some African countries for many years, said that the "third -party cooperation" of China and developed economies in Asia, Africa, Latinarian countries has actually practiced for many years. In addition to individual projects related to US national security, the United States cannot intervene in many fields, which is also reflected in the cooperation between China and France in some African projects. For example, in many countries in North Africa and the central and western regions, China and France have conducted "third -party cooperation" in the construction and engineering supervision field of highways.

In March of this year, Germany announced that it will formulate a national security strategy, of which relations with China will be an important part of the German national security strategy. Pascal Abu, an expert in China, the Institute of Frankfurt Peace Institute, believes that the German national security strategy takes the “Belt and Road” as an important part of the relationship between China. The academic community is studying the "Belt and Road" initiative and suggested that the government cooperates with China. Abu said that some countries along the “Belt and Road”, especially Africa, overlap the security interests of Germany, and the stability of the above areas is directly related to German economic security interests. He believes that the "Belt and Road" can provide development momentum and help some countries for reconstruction for political instability countries. Experience, make up for your shortcomings. These voices from the German academic community are also expected that Western countries can launch "third -party cooperation" with China in the field of global infrastructure construction.

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