After meeting with six of the world’s wealthiest nations, President Joe Biden defended his administration’s push to target China in a Group of Seven communique that called out human rights abuses in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, China’s “debt diplomacy,” and urged a fresh investigation of the coronavirus’s origins.

It was the first time in three years that a joint statement by the seven leaders, issued as the cohort wrapped up its first in-person summit since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, had mentioned China.