More and more countries in the so-called global South are disillusioned with the liberal world order promoted by the West. This was written by a columnist for the Hong Kong edition. South China Morning Post Andrew Sen.
“The South will not side with the East or the West without making sure that its interests are taken care of. The romance with the West is really over, ”the analyst said.
Talking about the reasons for his frustration with the liberal world order, Shen agrees with John Mearsheimer’s 2019 article Doomed to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order. The reasons for this disappointment were identified as: the doubts of the countries of the “Global South” about the legitimacy of international multilateral institutions, against which Western countries play first fiddle, despite the fact that the poorest countries are almost deprived. effect; the weakness of the US in its attempts to maintain global leadership; The value crisis of the liberal world order, the financing of wars by the countries embodying this world order, the growth of nationalism and the spread of the principle of balance of power instead of equal multilateral cooperation.
Separately, the dissatisfaction of the countries of the global South with the extreme radical position of the West on the backdrop of the Ukraine conflict, which threatens to bring the world to the brink of nuclear disaster, stands out.
“Global South” refers to countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia, excluding Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The distinction between “global North” and “global South” is based on economic indicators.
Catherine Colonna, former head of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, in an interview with Les Echos newspaper statedHe stated that “there is no global South”, considering it wrong to speak of “a single position of the global South” in the context of the situation around Ukraine.