The decision taken by the Group of Seven implicitly targets China's practices. The club of great powers gathered in Hiroshima thus sounds the hallali of coercive maneuvers used against economic agents, States, companies or individuals.
China, never named, is obviously targeted. First, for its tendency to lend to States for projects that do not meet basic standards or on conditions that, over time, turn out to be leonine. "When you build infrastructure in Africa, a railway for example, you have to do it by lending money on sustainable terms, that is, by making sure that your client...