Why the Global South Doesn't Exist According to Les Echos

The Global South... Emmanuel Macron and Xi Jinping, writes Jean-Marc Vittori, an editorialist for Les Échos, "recently took up this expression coined (...) by a left-wing American intellectual," but they're talking nonsense. Because, as he knows, "the Global South does not exist." Neither geographically nor politically.

On the other hand, these countries of a global South that does not exist have this: they share "a resentment towards the most advanced nations" and a "rancor" that most often comes from a "painful colonization." Really? Itself fueled by the hoarding of vaccines during the Covid crisis, the unfulfilled promises of aid in the face of global warming , the passivity in the face of the unsustainable indebtedness of the poorest countries, the variable geometry condemnations of military interventions depending on whether they come from the North or the South.

In short, what does not exist does exist, and this "posture" could well, writes the editorialist, create a global South that would become the enemy of a global North. A posture, really? A posture.