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Filipinos only respect and fear Europeans and Americans. As I have interacted with them for 20 years this is utmost true, this is their attitude to ASEAN countries and you can see the psychology behind American bases in their countries. They do not believe anyone outside of the western hemisphere exert influence or innovation.
Integrating India—soon to be the world’s third-largest economy—into the G-7 process is therefore the logical next step for the West. After all, the G-7 is no longer just a forum for major industrialized countries to align economic policies, as it was in the past.
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It is no surprise, then, that New Delhi has no desire to frame its outreach to the global south in adversarial terms with the West. Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has often talked about India as a south-western power—rooted in the global south with “very strong bonding” to Western and West-aligned countries.
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Strengthening the G-7 while keeping its democratic geopolitical orientation deserves more intensive discussion. Drawing New Delhi away from Moscow and enabling it to compete with Beijing have long been U.S. objectives. This should be a goal for the G-7 as well.
Tying India, especially, more strongly to the G-7 by including it in the group would also lend the West greater influence and legitimacy with the global south. India is the key to breaking the old East-West and North-South divides that shaped so many of the debates and conflicts of the 20th century.
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I saw this when it was aired and what they say Biden should do showing American strength, Biden is doing the opposite which shows how the US is weak. Biden is 100% aware of how the Republicans will see him in regards to China. Biden is mature...? Give me a break! I bet they forget China was the last country Biden talked to when he was elected President. The US is in the mindset of the child that threatens to take his ball and go home so no one else can play with it. So don't bet on Biden doing anything of the sort because the US and the West are at their weakest point since their height in the world. They're trying to spin how their alliance is at their strongest. Don't confuse strength when it's really just the West circling their wagons as their last desperate attempt to save themselves from the inevitable.
It is strange why they bring up how China now is thinking of providing Russia with lethal aid now when that has always been the suspicion since the start. Just like why is the COVID-19 lab-leak theory all of sudden getting attention when they believed that from the start. They want to believe it was an engineered bio-weapon but they would have a hard time explaining why the infection started in Wuhan if it was a Chinese bioweapon meant to be used against China's enemies hence why the furthest they can go is a lab-leak. This all had to have been planned like I said to be announced after Blinken's "good-will" trip to China. What you didn't see in that video is even they were questioning the timing of why this is happening at the same time? There's only questioning now because Blinken didn't have all this as a backdrop of China ruining Blinken's good-will trip to "repair relations" as they called it only for China to ruin it with these revelations. And why did Blinken cancel his trip? Because to have it while this balloon fiasco was happening would've made Biden look bad to Republicans who would use it against him.
This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. The President of Namibia shuts down the German ambassador, who appears to be under the illusion that he is still in a German colony.
The fact that the German has to speak in the language of his conqueror speaks volumes about the stature and place of Germany in this context. That a slave should raise such an issue with a sovereign nation as Namibia, should be an insult on the level of a diplomatic incident.
The G7 fancy themselves as the nobles of the world and wouldn’t want to sully their hands with doing the hard yards ie making crap and dying in NATO wars. They’d prefer for eager sepoy Indians to do all that for cents on the dollar.
I think I read somewhere it was an old video. The reaction does make sense though considering how Germany dragged its feets over the atrocities they commited in Namibia, so the comments by the German ambassador is almost offensive and loaded with cinicism