Japan need not save a place for the Global South at the G-7 summit

Robert Dujarric is co-director of the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies at the Japan campus of Temple University.

The Global South has emerged as a focus of diplomatic attention. Indian Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar spoke recently in Mozambique of bringing the Global South together. Last month, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hailed the New Development Bank in Shanghai as the "great bank of the Global South."