India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for the African Union to join the Group of 20 leading economies (G20) on Sunday.
The G20 is made up of 19 countries plus the European Union, which together account for around 85% of global GDP and two-thirds of the world’s population. The group includes geopolitical rivals like the US, Russia and China, but also countries with a smaller global reach. South Africa is the only member from the African continent.
“We have a vision of inclusiveness and with that vision, we have invited the African Union to become permanent members of the G20,” Modi said at the a business forum in New Delhi on Sunday.
Modi is not the first G20 leader to support the African Union’s membership.
Earlier this year, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the bloc has his full backing for a permanent seat at the G20
India currently holds the G20 presidency, a position which rotates each year between the 19 member states.
In this role it has struggled to bridge differences over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but it has instead pushed to reach a consensus on issues that disproportionately affect developing countries, also known as the Global South.
“When India assumed the G20 presidency last December, we were acutely conscious that most of the Global South would not be at the table when we meet,” said Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
“This mattered very much because the really urgent problems are those faced by them,” he added. “India, itself so much a part of the Global South, could not stand by and let that happen.”
Too bad his “vision of inclusiveness” isn’t seen inside India. In India, his vision is setting Hindu supremacist thugs to engineer communal & ethnic violence across India, ending press freedom, setting Enforcement Directorate+Central Bureau of Investigation + Income Tax after elected non-BJP governments to scare them into collapsing so Adani can profit, setting his troll army after the Chief Justice of India when he fails to kowtow.
The worst part is that it’s a tactic thays cursed to eventual failure. And when that failure comes it will take a long time and a lot of pain for the country to recover.
Neither he nor his followers (called andhbhakts aka blindly faithful ) care for the future of their country or their religion. They enjoy feeling
Eventual failure of the nation is not his concern (it never has been), if he stops feeding hate & fear to Hindu supremacists they’ll likely turn their violence on him.
yeah this makes a lot of sense - the only way forward is to keep the hate machine churning. Like how the republicans cant really stop the momentum trump generated on a platform of hate. Any attempts to even decelerate marks you as their enemy.
Sounds like cops