On the same day it posted a report of the “new right-left coalition to oppose the NATO war” in the United States—namely, the Feb. 19 Washington demonstration—International Affairs also posted an analysis of the speeches of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar at the Voice of Global South Summit just held in New Delhi. That analysis is that “In the historic transition underway in the world order, India views the Global South as its ‘natural constituency.’” The analysis is based on a new article by M.K. Bhadrakumar, “Hopes for a New World Order” in The Tribune on Jan. 23. (https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/hopes-for-a-new-world-order-472834 ). Ambassador Bhadrakumar appeared on the blacklist of the Ukrainian government’s Center for Countering Disinformation after he was scheduled to speak at a conference of the Schiller Institute last year. The CCD’s blacklist was protested by the Indian government at that time.
International Affairs’s Feb. 4 coverage of The Tribune op-ed by Bhadrakumar says that Indian diplomacy had “begun turning its back on the Global South” in the early 1990s, opting “to work with the Western agenda"; but that that has now changed decisively. “Jaishankar rejected the collective West’s destructive attempts to polarize the world order … ‘us vs them mindset.’”
