Long-held resentments of the west are surfacing as world relations rebalance in favour of economic powerhouses like India and China, says Guardian columnist Nathalie Tocci
representatives of more than 40 countries in Jeddah to discuss the principles for ending Russia’s invasion.Photograph: Francis Kokoroko/Reuters
The west pays greater heed than it used to also because the global south matters more in international relations. As the Indian scholar Amitav Acharya points out, there is a distinction between the “power south”, which represents the engine of global growth, and the “poor south”. The crucial question is how to ensure that the latter also has a voice.
Countries in the global south will play increasingly crucial roles in decarbonising the global economy, given their share of critical natural resources. imports much of its lithium and cobalt from Chile and the Democratic Republic of the Congo respectively, while China has a near monopoly on the extraction, processing and production of many more critical minerals..
Nathalie Tocci is the director of the Italian Institute of International Affairs and a Guardian columnist
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