Ever since Russia started its war, the West has tried to enlist the countries in the Global South to come to the defense of Ukraine. The results have been mixed at best, even though the effects of the Ukraine war are being felt around the globe. The war in Ukraine took center stage at the Munich Security Conference, arguably the most important security conference in Europe. Our Global Eyes hosts Isha Bhatia and William Glucroft were on location for a special episode. Their guests include Lynn Kuok, senior fellow for Asia-Pacific security at International Institute for Strategic Studies, IISS, and Dan Smith, director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI. They talk about hunger, the framing of the Ukraine war, different policy priorities, the US-China rivalry, international law and why the West should treat the Global South with greater respect. Editorial team: Nina Werkhäuser and Matthias von Hein
00:00 Intro
02:32 Dan Smith on the grievances of the Global South in regard to the Ukraine war
05:54 Lynn Kuok, IISS, on effects of the Ukraine war and the Russia-China alignment
09:51 Lynn Kuok on international law, sovereignty, values and the framing of the conflict
11:09 Dan Smith on shadows of colonialism
13:14 Dan Smith on the Russia-China-US triangle
15:10 Lynn Kuok on the democracy versus autocracies framing
17:32 Lynn Kuok and Dan Smith on the importance of international law
22:31 Lynn Kuok on Europe’s role in the Indo-Pacific
25:02 Dan Smith on the multi-polar world order,
29:57 Lynn Kuok on China or other countries mediating in the Ukraine conflict
33:32 Dan Smith on the continued role of nation states, the prospects for peace in Ukraine
36:01 Lynn Kuok on the US-China competition, the deep seated suspicion between Washington and Beijing and the importance of the rule of law to keep this competition from escalating into kinetic conflict.
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Someone actually understands and articulated China's win win foreign policy! Astounding. Thank you Dan.
Iraq remember that
8:50 so just act like their human right violations dont exist? Wtf, thats dumb
To thumnail questions? yes
Interesting to see a neutral pane which is so rare in western media. Except the lady who kept justifying west and asking east to make exception.
As an American I think we squandered all our good will ever since we started invading one country after another. It's so hypocritical for Biden to say Russia is bad because it invaded Ukraine when the US invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, Granada, Syria, and it bombed Libya into oblivion for good measure. Until the US stops attacking other nations it doesn't like we have no creditability and are not in a moral position to tell other countries they are in the wrong. And let's not even get started on how illegal Biden's bombing of Nordstrom 2 was. I mean, attacking Germany, condemning Germans to pay enormous amounts of money because they blew up their pipeline. Normally when you attack another countries infrastructure, that's called an act of war. I think Germany would well be in it's right to declare war on us, I mean if they actually had a leader who wasn't spineless.
Rule-based order, value based order. What is that ? International law…yes !
however Yugoslavia, Iraq, libya Syria etc
The worlds problems are not Europe’s problems? We’ve been involved in helping both economically and militarily international problems 10 000 more times than any other regions except the United States.
Not only the Global South don't want to get involve in the Ukraine / Russia War , both Germany & France want to
jump out of this mess as soon as possible . Only US & NATO want this war to continue . UK has to deal with the
very serious inflation / vegetable shortages problem internally and can not support US as before .
Ukraine is now drafting men over 50 years old to the War ( no more young people ! ) .
A whole generation of their youths has become Cannon Fodder already ? This war has to stop ASAP !
Is it by coincidence that we have someone from the Indian origin and East Asian/Chinese origin criticizing their govts stance on a European conflict? I think not. Subversion attempts work on gullible minds.
Hapa Queenn….
Whatever your opinions and arguments are EUROPEAN WW1 WW2 now on brink of WW3 HOW MANY DIED ,,, US is pawning EU for what,the country who follows his own laws
Those monkeys down south don’t learn from any history nor do they EVER choose the winning side… they wonder why they get no investments
It all started, because US wanted Russia to lick dust. That's all it was.
international laws already undermined for years, and now that it hit western interests everyone should stand by it? such a bs, everyone for themselves/their own interests is what the world do rite now
Ukraine grows and exports metric tons of food for the world. India can barely grow enough food for itself. What’s India doing for the poorest countries and what does the “West” been doing for the poorest countries. So maybe what happens in Europe is more important to the global community than what India is saying.
Yellow bird clueless about Ukraine conflict. Old man wise but failed to bring up US name in atrocities and didn’t want to use the words colonialism mentality. Good talk.
International law or for that matter any law is only valuable when applied consistently. When those who break it are held accountable similarly. While Russia has indeed broken international law by invading Ukraine, it is no different to the us and it's allies invading iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc. In those instances, where there sanctions placed on these countries? You cant have laws that are applied only when it suits certain parties and expect people to still value such laws.
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STOP SUPPORTING THE WAR !!!
You guys remember international has been ignored since 1990s by America led west as results leaders of some countries got hanged assassinated and brutally killed , now because of Russians actions in Ukraine the international law being an issue. We didn’t forget president Bush junior words either with us or against us.
just love to watch biatch in yellow talking about international law and sovereignty while US are currently occupied 30% of Syria ，she might not white enough outside ，but certainly white enough inside 🤣🤣🤣
Click bait.
Let’s be honest. The US is not a Democracy. It’s a Plutocracy.
When Galwan clash happened between India and China the Advice we got from the West is do more trade..so it's A wrong that you expect our Co Operation
The west did not respect the international law and no one ask the world to condemn and sanction the US and UK
Objective viewpoints! Great guests. Thank you.
That Asia girl is western slave or she is totally brainwashed
when are they going to tell us who blew their nordstream pipeline
Milf
Yup, Global West is long time out of touch with medivial stuff….
The white guy was self reflecting while the Asian was being a perfect colonial slave
Lynn kouk lives in lala land
The Russia Ukraine war needs to call upon cease fire followed by negotiations if required. Although the situation is exacerbated by the world in general by being an active participant for example sending more arms and animations to Ukraine, or a sideline viewer and an analyzer like Europe and China or a witness and a neutral party like India and others alike.
In short, everyone is observing, participating or fuelling the act of war.
The situation hence has now turned from an expected cease fire call by all parties involved to a deadlock situation innocently and ignorantly supported and witness by rest of the world.
The deadlock situation is not only sustained by the countries in war and in question but by the entire rest of the world as well.
We better work for the ceasefire and removing the deadlock instead of being a bystander or a fueller of the ongoing war situation impacting the entire world.
Whether we like it or not, we are supporting the war by becoming a silent bystander or an active participant towards one side. We cannot hide and think that nothing is happening, when in fact much is happening due to and mostly only because of this war.
The hypocrisy is that they talk about Global South but not a representative from Global South
yes
Good discussion ! I’m admired that DW published this considering their political biased stand
Europe,s problems are world problems,but world problems are not of europe's.
The first guy really knows what he is talking about. That also means people in western block don't listen to him probably.
As for the Singapore lady I don't think she understands south east Asia. And definitely not the wider Asia.
International laws are a joke. That the west use against other countries that don't agree with them.