「Gゼロ」提唱者イアン・ブレマーと読み解く、グローバルサウスの正体

No one in Japan is trying to get members of the Global South to choose between The US and China. Kishida wants to position Japan as the bridge between the G7 and the Global South. Japan is uniquely kind of a country that has some credibility in the global south to pull it off, in part because Japan is the only Asian member of the G7. It's like a Western club and Japan's kind of like hanging out there. They are playing a bigger role in geopolitics generally right now and that's something that Global South members, when they think about, are pretty happy with. But I would also say that China's always looming large in Japan's mind, and Kishida's attention on the Global South is not just because he's a good guy, but also because the Japanese are interested in countering China's influence.



サム・ポトリッキオ（米ジョージタウン大学教授）