OPINION | Western fantasies of wooing the Global South are dead

Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Chinese premier Xi Jinping, SA president Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian president Narendra Modi and Russian minister of foreign affairs Sergey Lavrov at the Brics summit in Johannesburg. Photo: Supplied

Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Chinese premier Xi Jinping, SA president Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian president Narendra Modi and Russian minister of foreign affairs Sergey Lavrov at the Brics summit in Johannesburg. Photo: Supplied

The conflict in Gaza may now have mortally damaged Western power and credibility in the Global South, says Pankaj Mishra.

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