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  • 9/18/2023
Taking an indirect swipe at China, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said the West was not the "bad guy" as it was not flooding Asian and African markets with goods on a massive scale and that there was a need to get over the "syndrome" of seeing it in a negative way.

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00:00 Taking an indirect swipe at China, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said
00:07 that the West was not the bad guy as it was not flooding Asian and African markets with
00:13 goods on a massive scale and that there was a need to get over the syndrome of seeing
00:19 it in a negative way.
00:20 Jaishankar was in Thiruvananthapuram as part of the launch of the PM Vishwa Karma scheme
00:26 when he made these remarks.
00:28 It is not the West which is flooding Asia and Africa with goods on a massive scale.
00:33 "I think we need to get over the syndrome of the past that the West is the bad guy and
00:38 on the other side are the developing countries.
00:41 The world is more complicated, the problems are much more complicated than that," the
00:46 minister said in response to a question by former Indian diplomat T P Srinivasan who
00:51 interviewed Jaishankar for the channel.
00:54 He said the issue today was the building up of a strong sense over the last 15-20 years
00:59 over the inequities of globalisation where countries saw their products, manufacturing
01:05 and employment come under stress due to their markets being flooded by cheap goods and indirect
01:10 reference to the Chinese trade and economic policies.
01:14 The minister said this underlying resentment and pain of those countries regarding the
01:19 global economy was building up for the last 15-20 years and the COVID-19 pandemic and
01:24 the Ukraine conflict resulted in prices of energy and food items going up.
01:29 So, there was a sense of anger building up in countries about them being used as an extractive
01:34 resource to fuel the economy of another nation and added that the West was not to be blamed
01:40 for that.
01:42 In an interview with Asianet, Jaishankar clarified that his remarks should not be seen as a defence
01:48 of the Western countries and said that in today's globalisation there was a concentration
01:53 of manufacturing that was being leveraged and subsidised and was affecting economies
01:58 of various nations.
01:59 However, India's manufacturing, agriculture, scientific achievements like the Chandrayaan
02:04 3 mission, ability to vaccinate etc. all of that has created a sense among the global
02:10 south which includes the African Union that one of us has the ability to stand, grow and
02:15 progress.
02:16 So, they identify with us in a way that they do not with other people, Jaishankar said.
02:22 Commenting on why Chinese President Xi Jinping skipped the G20 summit in New Delhi, Jaishankar
02:27 said that the reasons were up for speculations.
02:35 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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