New Delhi [India], March 6 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the era of “big deals” between dominant powers is over and that global multipolarity is an irreversible reality rooted in shared historical experiences. Speaking at the Raisina Dialogue 2026, he pointed to India’s vaccine diplomacy during the Covid pandemic as evidence of the Global South’s tangible solidarity.
“When Covid happened, the fact that a country like India, which was still undergoing its vaccination, was willing to send out vaccines to countries of the global south. Means global south is for real because it meant something for us. So there is an emotion, and I would argue to some degree a culture, where the global West is concerned. So the global south emanates from shared historical experiences,” Jaishankar said.
He noted a shifting internal dynamic within Western alliances, observing that the previously cohesive identity of the Global West is differentiating. Addressing structural changes in international relations, he said multipolarity is here to stay and predicted that bigger countries will form temporary compacts on limited issues rather than a single dominant deal dictating global affairs.
“One thought I would suggest is that if multipolarity is there to stay, the issue is not that it’s against multilateralism. You can have multipolarity with multilateralism and multipolarity without multilateralism, or how much multilateralism? So the success of multilateralism should not depend on the weakening of multipolarity because the weakening of multipolarity is not going to happen,” Jaishankar added. (ANI)
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