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Can China’s Global South outreach be sustained?
Beijing has done well in wooing developing countries but fostering a new world order won’t be easy.
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In the South Pacific region, China now has diplomatic relations with 11 countries – the latest being Nauru.
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BEIJING – The race for the hearts and minds of the Global South is on, and China appears to be in pole position.
Beijing has cultivated broad swathes of developing countries by funding much-needed infrastructure, upgrading diplomatic ties and increasing people-to-people exchanges through high-level forums and scholarships. Trade with many countries in regions as far-flung as Latin America, Africa and the Middle East has surpassed the United States’ trade with them.
