Opinion | China, faced with a hostile West, should make the Global South a foreign policy priority
Mao’s theory guided China to leverage global political mobility and manoeuvrability by aligning itself strategically with the political struggle of the third world nations. Faced with the threat of exclusion from a US-led world economy, China had to seek alternative power sources for legitimacy and survival. Perceiving itself as the leader of third-world revolutionary movements, … Read more
