TOKYO – Japan has been relying on the phrase “Global South” to describe developing nations, with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida adopting the phrase in policy speeches and the Foreign Ministry using it in press statements. Read more at straitstimes.com.
While foreign ministers from the G-7 also avoided using the phrase Global South in their joint statement in April’s meeting, Japan’s Foreign Ministry had said in its own press statements that among the issues discussed were “the emerging and developing countries known as the Global South”.
What is giving the G-7 pause is that legitimising the phrase Global South would suggest a “Global North”, unnecessarily spotlighting a contrast between the two groups, Dr Satoru Nagao of the Hudson Institute think-tank told The Straits Times.Dr Tosh Minohara, chairman of the Research Institute for Indo-Pacific Affairs think-tank, added that the Global South is an abstract concept that is not monolithic.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said during the January summit, alluding to the waning power of institutions like the G-7: “We, the Global South, have the largest stakes in the future.” Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also said in April that the Shanghai-based New Development Bank could become the “great bank of the Global South”.
India’s top envoy S. Jaishankar said in June 2022: “Europe has to grow out of the mindset that Europe’s problems are the world’s problems, but the world’s problems are not Europe’s problems.”Japan’s Kishida to push for a ‘world without nuclear weapons’ at G-7, but faces impossible task He has been emphasising how “Ukraine today may be East Asia tomorrow”, in light of tensions in the Taiwan Strait, and stressing a vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific. And other than his Africa trip, the PM also met the leaders of Bangladesh and Jordan in Tokyo in April.
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