The scale of the Western response in Ukraine highlights its failure to step up in the face of other global crises, he argues. “The danger is that this gap grows, and the deficit of trust between the West and rest grows too”
Britain and France will convene major international conferences. The first, in London, will seek to drum up support for Ukraine. The second, in Paris, will focus on international financing for countries and communities affected by extreme poverty and climate change. The risk is that far from bringing the world together, the conferences will further divide it.
These growing needs, and the failure adequately to address them, are the context for global division over Ukraine. Few countries defend the invasion, but many believe the West is not a reliable friend. Nearly two-thirds of the world’s population live in countries that are officially neutral or supportive of Russia. These include several notable democracies, such as Brazil, India, Indonesia and South Africa.
It is the climate crisis that presents the greatest test of the sincerity of Western solidarity with the rest of the world. Rich countries need to spend trillions of dollars The second set of issues concerns the lack of influence that developing countries have over international institutions. Many countries rightly resent the unbalanced nature of global power in the main institutions. One egregious example is that the European Union enjoys observer status at the G20, but the African Union, representing over a billion people, does not. Harder to fix is the balance of power within theFinally, narrative matters.
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