{"id":32885,"date":"2025-02-09T10:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T10:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/global-leaders-have-a-selective-view-of-sovereignty-it-matters-as-long-as-its-in-their-interests-kenan-malik\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T10:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T10:33:14","slug":"global-leaders-have-a-selective-view-of-sovereignty-it-matters-as-long-as-its-in-their-interests-kenan-malik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/global-leaders-have-a-selective-view-of-sovereignty-it-matters-as-long-as-its-in-their-interests-kenan-malik\/","title":{"rendered":"Global leaders have a selective view of sovereignty. It matters, as long as it\u2019s in their interests | Kenan Malik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether in Gaza or the Chagos Islands, denying a people\u2019s identity and rights paves the way to robbing them of their autonomy to govern <\/p>\n<p>Sovereignty matters. Except when it doesn\u2019t. And it doesn\u2019t when another people\u2019s sovereignty gets in the way of your nation\u2019s needs. Then sovereignty (for any other country or people, at least) becomes so much dust blowing in the storm. It is something to which the peoples of the Chagos Islands and Gaza can attest.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Britain finalised an agreement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/03\/britain-to-return-chagos-islands-to-mauritius-ending-years-of-dispute\">to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius<\/a>, a shabby deal at the end of a sordid history of British rule. Much of the criticism of the deal is equally shabby.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/feb\/09\/global-leaders-have-a-selective-view-of-sovereignty-it-matters-as-long-as-its-in-their-interests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether in Gaza or the Chagos Islands, denying a people\u2019s identity and rights paves the way to robbing them of their autonomy to govern Sovereignty matters. Except when it doesn\u2019t. And it doesn\u2019t when another people\u2019s sovereignty gets in the way of your nation\u2019s needs. Then sovereignty (for any other country or people, at least) &#8230; <a title=\"Global leaders have a selective view of sovereignty. It matters, as long as it\u2019s in their interests | Kenan Malik\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/global-leaders-have-a-selective-view-of-sovereignty-it-matters-as-long-as-its-in-their-interests-kenan-malik\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Global leaders have a selective view of sovereignty. It matters, as long as it\u2019s in their interests | Kenan Malik\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}