D-10 Countries - D-10 Country groups, Significance, and Disadvantages

D10 is referred to as an initiative that was taken in the year 2008 by the US department of state policy planning. This initiative was then adopted in the year 2014 by the Atlantic Council who then established the initiative to maintain “a rule-based democratic order” that was channelized under the ruling of the ten democratic countries that are referred to as D10 countries. More than 60% of the total people who are living in a democracy in the world are represented by the group of D10 countries. 

The newly proposed “Asian Czar” who belongs to the Department of States of the United States, Krut Campbell, represented as a china Hawk by the media and the press of The United States was the man who designed the Obama’s administration for the “Pivot to Asia” strategies in the year 2012. He was a successful publisher of the much-discussed article titled “how America can shore up the Asian orders” where he promoted the initiative of the Atlantic Council and the proposal of the administration functioning under Donald Trump to expand the G7 countries into more elaborate groups of democratic countries that will be referred to as D10 group of countries with the addition of three more countries, namely, South Korea, Australia, and India to the group of democratic countries. These three countries are taken into consideration to address the most urgent need of trade, supply chain, technology, and standards.

This article further deals with the topics “what are D10 countries”, “what is D10 group countries” along with their significances, advantages, and disadvantages.

What is the D10 Group of Countries?

The proposal of the D10 countries was put forward by the Britan that also wanted to club India, Australia, and South Korea along with the existing G7 countries, namely, UK, USA, Italy, Germany, France, Japan, and Canada. The main motive to create a group of democratic countries’ group under the title of D10 countries is to create an alternative 5G technologies and types of equipment so that the sole dependency on China for the 5G technologies and gadgets can be broken and the monopoly of the country over this technology can be brought to an end. 

Mainly the United Kingdom is on the lookout to establish a new alliance with ten 5G countries who can alliance against China so that they can reduce the world market dependency on Beijing for 5G technology especially the one that is offered by the giant telecom industry of china named Huawei. Thus Britain is being planned to club the three countries with the already existing seven 5G companies to create an alternative 5G technology so as to break the monopoly of China in supplying the vital and major technologies. 

The development of the D10 companies came into play after Britain has launched a probe against Huawei’s involvement in the up-gradation of the mobile networks in Britain that is considered as a vital issue concerning the country’s security post the sanction against the telecom company by the United States. This proposal of Britain has already been shared with Washington DC of the United States. The major challenge that is faced by all the democratic countries now is the viability of the 5G technologies that can only be provided by Nokia and Ericsson but both the companies are not capable of offering the 5G technology as fast and as cheap as Huawei. 

The decision to unite all the nations against China came to post the breakout of the Covid-19 virus that is believed to have been artificially generated in the central city of China, Wuhan. The countries that were severely affected by this pandemic, especially, Europe held China and its Communist Government accountable for the breakout of the virus in multiple nations. The government of China was accused of concealing the news about the spread of this unknown virus strain in Wuhan much earlier. Thus the members of D10 countries are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, United States, United Kingdom, and European Union. The countries that are observers are Indonesia, Poland, and Spain.

What are G7 countries?

The Group of seven that is commonly known as G7 countries is the inter-governmental forum of seven countries who are considered as the world’s highest economists that advance in IMF and therefore known as the wealthiest economies with liberal socio-economic approaches. The seven countries are organized under shared values of cultural pluralism and representative government. By the year 2018, the G7 nations together hold about 60% of the total wealth generated in the world, about 32 to 46% of the total gross domestic products, and enclose about 770 million people that account for approximately 10% of the world’s population. All the countries that are a part of the G7 group enjoy great power and run almost a close economy along with close military and diplomatic relations with other countries outside of G7.  

The G7 group was initiated in the year 1973 with the ad hoc gathering of the finance ministers of these countries. But over the years G7 evolved as a more mature and high-profile venue for addressing the major economic crisis and discussing and coordinating the solutions for the global socio-economic issues majorly focusing on trades, security, economics, and climate changes. Each member belonging to the head of the government in every country along with the members of the European Union meets annually in the G7 submit but the higher officials of the countries involved and of EU exchange dialogs throughout the year.  While the higher officials of other countries and other prestigious international organizations are invited as a guest to this submit. Russia was the formal member of this G7 group from the year 1997 to 2014. As G7 was based on a treaty therefore it does not have any permanent office or secretariat. The presidency of G7 keeps on revolving among the member countries while the previous nations host and organize the G7 summit along with determining the major global crisis that needs to be discussed.   

Significance of D10 Countries

The major significance of D10 countries are as follows:

1. It aims at including all the G7 countries along with collaboration with other three nations like Australia and the two major technological giants of Asia, that is, India and South Korea. 

2. With the help of the 10 member countries in the group, it aims at channelizing the fund in order to develop vital technologies in the existing big telecommunication industries around the globe.

3. The group aims to break the monopoly of China in the 5G technological advancements with the development of various economical 5G equipment along with the upgrading or finding new technologies. Thus under the presidentship of Joe Biden, the countries in G10 are witnessing alternate arrangements against the authority states like China and giant firms like Huawei that have a base in Beijing.  

The Importance of D10 Countries

The importance of D10 countries are as follows:

1. The first world countries that together form the 10G groups will attempt to restrict from picking up the economy of the developing countries followed by strategically placing the funds so that it later flows back into the economy of China from the picked countries.

2. China, in recent times, has been accused of initiating the wolf warrior diplomacy by exploiting the internet with misinformation to falsely campaign against the United States and its alliances against the covid information.

3. The policies of the D10 are attractive to both the “foreign-policy” competitors as well as restrainers that help in reducing the vulnerability of the two alike groups along with the rising public concerts that can help to lessen the future tension that the countries facing with China.

4.  China has been strategizing to establish rule-based orders in a wrapping of state subsidiary and authoritative technologies. Thus it has in one way helped in reducing the melding of Russia with the election and thus resulted in the restriction of corrupt money flow.  

Disadvantages of D10 Countries

The major disadvantages of D10 countries are as follows:

1. Accordion to the study of the experts, breaking the monopoly of China over the technological market can not be achieved by boycotting China but it has to be achieved by working along with China. 

2. As China with its huge population holds the major potential market of the world, thus the country cannot be left out of the market framework.

3. India needs to be a little more careful with its foreign policies as China being the neighbor of India has been carrying out various insurgencies in Ladak that came as a big threat to India.

China has been in the race to be the superpower of all nations. Thus this 10G has come into existence. These countries are actually working together in their foreign policies and markets to create an alternative technology as well as equipment market starting from telecom industries to gradually reduce the dependency on China for its low cost and effective techniques and equipment market.