LankaWeb – The West vs Global South: "You Have the Numbers. We Have the Money"
Posted on February 9th, 2021 Sri Lanka’s envoy in China Dr Palitha Kohona-Journalist Chakravarthi Raghavan When the 134-member Group of 77, the largest single coalition of developing countries, was trying to strike a hard bargain in its negotiations with Western nations years ago, one of its envoys famously declared: You have the numbers. We have the money.” But that implicit threat – signifying the power of the purse– did not deter the G77 from playing a key ro...
Source: lankaweb.com