Emerging countries see themselves as victims

The emerging states' knee-jerk tendency to see themselves as aid recipients and victims is a major obstacle to the success of the climate talks in Copenhagen, the daily Dagens Nyheter comments: "The old division of the world into developing and industrialised nations is no longer valid. Which category does India fit into? Or China? … Among the countries designated as developing nations attending the environmental summit is the G77 group: a network founded in 1964 by the UN which originally consisted of 77 countries. Although the world has become a better place since then and we have a new and stable middle class in former poor countries, that group has expanded to encompass 130 countries - including states like India, Brazil, China and oil-rich Kuwait. ... It's evident that these countries see themselves as objects that require compensation rather than as subjects that can act for themselves in the future. This doesn't help the climate." 

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