China calls for more Global South voices to be heard at United Nations

China needs African and other countries in the Global South to reshape existing global institutions and norms, including the weakening of human rights, though this, as one article reads, can often be at odds with African citizen interests:

African NGO coalitions are increasingly locking horns with their own governments and Chinese diplomats during crucial votes, especially at the UN Human Rights Council. The key messages these non-state actors are sending is that African governments’ strategic engagements with China should not violate core African principles, norms, and commitments to citizens. There is a tendency to paint these as “Western concerns.” The truth is Africans codified them in their struggles for independence.

China, which is also funded the African Union (AU)’s headquarters, plunders minerals from Africa as African trade deficit with China grows. It is also China that benefits from Africa’s minerals, while mining activities by China-owned companies in Africa have a devastating impact on the environment. Also, African countries’ debt to China have been growing immensely over the years. Beijing uses this for economic and political coercion.

China also needs the Global South to isolate Taiwan. We have seen this, for example, just a few weeks ago, when China put pressure on the Government of Zambia because Taiwanese civil society participants were planning to join the RightsCon, a human rights summit that was planned to be hosted in Zambia. In the end, the Zambian government showed they have no spine and gave in, cancelling the event just a week before it was planned to take place.

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china can well call for it, the question is, does it matter? the UN has always had a bias towards the global north; once that there’s more countries from the south in there, the countries from the north will just stop listening to the organization altogether.

the reason why the UN was founded was mostly to do diplomacy to try and prevent the countries from the north of all destroying each other and thereby themselves. since the countries from the south weren’t so threatening to do the same thing, they were not included. it was never meant to actually represent all of the world, otherwise you would have to represent the deep sea too.