How Western push for globalisation hurt poor African nations

US Vice President JD Vance addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, US on February 20, 2025. 

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US Vice President JD Vance gave a famous speech last week in which he railed against globalisation, the principle by which nations should be more connected and interdependent.

Vance, a conservative politician argued that kind of interdependence has ended up hurting the West, according to him, globalisation’s idea was that richer countries would move up the value chains while the poorer countries would make simpler things.