World does not need 'G1', ministry says

The world does not need a "Group of One" dictating to the rest of it, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin warned on Wednesday in denouncing a G7 statement that grossly interfered with China's internal affairs.

Speaking at a regular news conference in Beijing, Wang added that it is dangerous to seek the so-called "solidarity" of a few at the cost of a divided world.

On the same day, Liu Jinsong, director of the ministry's Department of Asian Affairs, met with Koizumi Tsutomu, chief minister of the Japanese embassy in China, to make stern representations with the Japanese side.