These final words bear repeating: ‘the Global South… is reorganising to pursue its own interests’. Credit Suisse describes these ‘fractures’ accurately: ‘The global West (Western developed countries and allies) has drifted away from the global East (China, Russia, and allies) in terms of core strategic interests, while the Global South (Brazil, Russia, India, and China and most developing countries) is reorganising to pursue its own interests’. In its Investment Outlook 2023 report, Credit Suisse pointed to the ‘deep and persistent fractures’ that have opened up in the international order-another way of referring to what Jaishankar called the ‘changing world’. Second, like many governments in the Global South, it recognises that we live in ‘changing world’ and that the traditional major powers-especially the United States-need to ‘adjust to those changes’. First, the Indian government-which does not oppose the United States, either in terms of its programme or temperament-is uninterested in being drawn into a U.S.-led bloc system (the ‘NATO treaty construct’, as Jaishankar put it). ![]() There are two significant takeaways from Jaishankar’s statements. Katsura Yuki (Japan), An Ass in a Lion’s Skin, 1956. ‘One of the challenges of a changing world’, Jaishankar said, ‘is how do you get people to accept and adjust to those changes’. India, he said, is not interested in being part of NATO Plus, wishing to maintain a greater degree of geopolitical flexibility. ‘It seems almost like that is the only template or viewpoint with which they look at the world… That is not a template that applies to India’. ‘A lot of Americans still have that NATO treaty construct in their heads’, Jaishankar said in a press conference on 9 June. The Indian government’s response to this ‘NATO Plus’ formulation echoed the sentiment of its earlier remarks about purchasing Russian oil. President Joe Biden, as well as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This policy statement was released shortly after the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, where India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with the various G7 leaders, including U.S. On 24 May, the US Congress’s Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party released a policy statement on Taiwan which asserted that ‘he United States should strengthen the NATO Plus arrangement to include India’. However, such comments have not deterred Washington’s efforts to win India over to its agenda. But I suspect, looking at the figures, probably our total purchases for the month would be less than what Europe does in an afternoon’. If you are looking at energy purchases from Russia, I would suggest that your attention should be focused on Europe… We do buy some energy which is necessary for our energy security. His answer was blunt: ‘I noticed you refer to oil purchases. ![]() Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Jaishankar was asked to explain India’s continued purchase of oil from Russia. In April 2022, at a joint press conference in Washington, DC with U.S. Jaishankar has been vocal in defending his government’s refusal to accede to Washington’s pressure. ![]() Since the start of the war in Ukraine, India’s Foreign Minister S. Governments that had long been pliant to the Triad’s wishes, such as the administrations of Narendra Modi in India and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Türkiye (despite the toxicity of their own regimes), are no longer as reliable. In certain philosophical contexts, a form of strong emergence is used to account for the apparent logical gap separating that which is determined by the laws of physics from such basic human characteristics as identity, the existence of a soul and free will.Kandi Narsimlu (India), Waiting at the Bus Stand, 2023.Ī new mood of defiance in the Global South has generated bewilderment in the capitals of the Triad (the United States, Europe, and Japan), where officials are struggling to answer why governments in the Global South have not accepted the Western view of the conflict in Ukraine or universally supported the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in its efforts to ‘ weaken Russia’. In evolutionary biology, emergence often refers to a dynamical process by which new species or new biological structures emerge. Integrating its uses across disciplines, the proper definition of emergence becomes even less clear. Consequently, the term has become somewhat politically charged arising in debates over which subfields of physics are more fundamental those that are the most reductionist which focus on the physics of the smallest constituents, or those that are least sensitive to microscopic details and thus focus on universal emergent behaviours. ![]() More broadly still, the modifier ‘emergent’ sometimes appears simply as a colloquial indication that a particular property is of great fundamental importance, and thus newsworthy and highly fundable.
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