Western hegemony
Hegemonic statecraft as contemporary fascism: dis-membering the world to govern it
Address at the 2025 Global South Academic Forum, Convened by East China Normal University, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, and the University of Johannesburg.
Five new countries, including Saudi Arabia and Iran, formally join BRICS
Members of the expanded BRICS bloc have declared to work for multilateral regimes and multipolarity against the attempts to create hegemony and dominance in the world politics
Media organizations from Global South discuss solidarity and standing up to sanctions
At an event in Shanghai, representatives of media organizations from Asia, Africa, and Latin America highlighted the need for learning from and working with each other and building infrastructure to resist western hegemony
The West is experiencing a contraction of its power, not necessarily its decline
The strategists of the hegemonic country of the West, the US, without realizing the flagrant contraction, show unlimited ambition.
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