amoy
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How does Japan being an US ally taint its image in front of Africans? Everyone wishes to be seen as siding with the strong. Everyone is very much living in the US led intrnational order and unable to overturn it. African countries are no exception though some of them may pose otherwise occasionally.You claim to be thinking like a Japanese but you are not.
Japan is seen as a strong ally of the US which doesn't go down well with the African Union.
Whereas India and Brazil has strong ties with many african nations.
So G4 is purely give and take kind of alliance based on self-interests.
Germany/Japan helps India/Brazil for global recognition while India/Brazil can help Japan/Germany to garner more support from members nations. That is how G4 works.
These folks don't just stick together without a strong reason.
Japanese throughout the years have done many good deeds, aids, development funds, investment.... for the 3rd world, and has no historical baggage with Africa and beyond unlike the West or India (e.g. colonial past and Indian immigrants). Myanmar your nextdoor for instance has got a waiver of debts in billions to Japan! Other than cheap talks what has India done substantially to showcase as a candidate how it would benefit and stand for the voiceless developing world like it commits to??
Here is what a responsible power is doing ~
No one is interested in getting G4 to disband. However , a snowwhite has no future with a few dwarfs.Xi’s speech contained three major announcements: a donation of $1 billion dollars over the next 10 years to create a peace and development fund with the United Nations; the establishment of a new standby peacekeeping force of 8,000 troops; and a pledge to provide military assistance worth $100 million to the African Union for peacekeeping missions over the next five years.
Those commitments came after Xi had already pledged $2 billion for an investment fund that will help the world’s least developed countries meet UN development goals, with far more to come: the goal is to invest $12 billion in the world’s poorest countries by 2030. Xi made that pledge on Saturday at the UN Sustainable Development Summit. Xi also said China would offer debt relief for the world’s “least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, and small island developing countries,” without naming any specific countries or the amount of debt to be absolved.
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