Author : Amrita Narlikar

Issue Briefs

Published on:  Jun 09, 2025

Amidst the fissures in the Transatlantic partnership, heightened United States (US)-China rivalry, and global trade frictions, commentaries of doom and gloom abound. This analysis offers a different perspective: while recognising the risks, it focuses on new opportunities that are emerging for the Global South. To deliberately mix two African proverbs, the Global South today is not the grass that gets trampled when elephants fight; rather, the lions have finally learnt to write and are shaping their own destinies. The age that glorified the hunter is ending.

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