一年一度的七国集团（G7）峰会5月21日在日本广岛落幕。

峰会召开前，美国和东道主日本一再放出信号，磨刀霍霍剑指中国与俄罗斯，宣示要团结一致反抗中国的“经济胁迫，并支持乌克兰对抗俄罗斯。

不过G7最终的公报又表明，希望和中国发展有建设性且稳定的关系，要去风险但不要脱钩。美国总统拜登还预言中美关系应该会很快解冻。

如何解读G7峰会内外复杂的政治动作？峰会取得什么成效？美国和日本拉拢盟友对抗中国的态势已经形成了吗？美国对中国到底是什么态度？

这期的早报播客《东谈西论》，听主持人韩咏红与香港城市大学法律学院教授、中国法与比较法研究中心主任王江雨解析。

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• 拜登：美中关系将“很快解冻”

This year’s Group of Seven (G7) summit in Hiroshima, Japan concluded on May 21.

Speaking at the end of the three-day summit, US President Joe Biden said the G7 leaders had agreed on a united approach to China that called for diversifying supply chains to reduce dependence on one country. 

"We're not looking to decouple from China. We're looking to de-risk and diversify our relationship with China," Biden told a press conference. He said G7 nations were more unified than ever in terms of "resisting economic coercion together and countering harmful practices that hurt our workers."

Despite China’s fiery response to the joint communique by the G7 leaders, Biden said that he expected a thaw in frosty relations with China “very shortly”, after strains caused by an incident earlier in 2023 when the United States shot down a Chinese balloon that flew over sensitive military sites.

In this episode of Global Heartbeat podcast, host Han Yong Hong invites Professor Wang Jiang Yu from the City University of Hong Kong School of Law to share his analysis of the recent G7 summit and its implications. 

Hosted by Lianhe Zaobao’s Associate Editor, Han Yong Hong, Global Heartbeat is a Mandarin weekly news and current affairs podcast that is updated every Tuesday, 7.00 PM SGT. It is available on zaobao.sg, Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, Spotify and other podcast platforms. 

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