Dr. Digby James Wren provides deep analysis on Geo-political and Geo-economic Risk, Global Trade and Investment Trends , Public Diplomacy Campaigns, Southeast Asia and East Asia Politics, China and the Belt and Road, and ASEANs transition to the emerging Multipolar order manifested in the BRICS+ and the Global Majority.
Blacklist: Biden unleashes sanctions on China. The Chair Live Episode 9
Season 1 · Episode 9
Saturday, January 18, 2025 • Duration 26:43
The Biden neo-cons are attempting to trap Trump in sanctions, weapons and loans to Gaza and Ukraine. A deep dive into the implications for G7 leaders as they drop like flies from the political fallout.
The rapid turnover of G7 leaders has become a farce. Economic turmoil, a major change in global industrial investment and a river of US sanctions and the Team Trump tariff avalanche expected this year provide the bulk of today’s episode.
A quick update on ASEAN and Cambodia FDI and the outlook for Trump tariffs on the world’s largest trade partnership between China and ASEAN.
Australia’s sustainability transition is highly dependent on China’s EVs, but so is the UK and many are countries.
In this episode we cover Cambodia's Techo Funan Canal and China's involvement and investment attitude as well as a update on risks to the Belt and Road in West Asia, Red Sea, Mediterranean and Africa.
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We are forming a global alliance against globalism, and neutrality studies is part of that. Don't get confused, let's just live with the contradiction.
Last Friday we held the second panel of independent social media contributors, discussing the new multipolarity we are now in, why we think that the collective west is being collectively stupid about it, and what we—and you—can do to oppose the lunacy.
The Basics:
* Multipolarity is not only an emerging reality, it is also a preferable foundation for global order.
* Neutrality is an important tool within the overall mix of how nations view themselves and position themselves in the context of integrated and indivisible security.
* NATO is a dangerous organisation and its expansion globally is undesirable and contrary to achieving a sustainable peace.
We are forming a global alliance against globalism, and neutrality studies is part of that. Don't get confused, let's just live with the contradiction.
Last Friday we held the second panel of independent social media contributors, discussing the new multipolarity we are now in, why we think that the collective west is being collectively stupid about it, and what we—and you—can do to oppose the lunacy.
The Basics:
* Multipolarity is not only an emerging reality, it is also a preferable foundation for global order.
* Neutrality is an important tool within the overall mix of how nations view themselves and position themselves in the context of integrated and indivisible security.
* NATO is a dangerous organisation and its expansion globally is undesirable and contrary to achieving a sustainable peace.
Today is Wednesday the 10th of July 2024 and today we're going to explore the NATO Summit that's being held in Washington today and tomorrow. And, I think we're going to start with an article written by the the former Singapore ambassador to the United Nations, Kishore Mahbubani, who was actually appointed twice as Singapore’s UN ambassador.
Now, he's a very, very well-respected figure, and he wrote in 2021 that...
“that the Pacific has no need of the destructive militaristic culture of the Atlantic Alliance.”
Now, what was he talking about?
What he was talking about was the fact that NATO, which has existed since post-World War II and the Cold War era, basically has been involved in invasions and wars in Europe, in the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa and other places.
And now the United States wants NATO to be dragged in to Asia.
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Could Trump’s Tariffs Turn Global Trade Topsy-Turvy
Sunday, April 13, 2025 • Duration 00:57
Featured Contributor Dr. Yasir Masood explores the Global Power Shift:
From Unipolar Dominance to Multipolar Adaptation with Professor Michael Dunford of the University of Sussex
The global order is transitioning away from a unipolar system dominated by a single superpower, signalling a disruptive but transformative shift toward a more multipolar world. While the United States continues to leverage its financial and trade influence, the international system is evolving into one that prioritises equitable development, challenging historical patterns of inequality.
Historically, the global framework perpetuated significant disparities, with few exceptions such as China, which defied odds to emerge as a major economic power. Today, nations and regions are actively pursuing alternatives to traditional Western-centric models. Initiatives like regional currencies, parallel payment systems, and new alliances—not merely reactive decoupling measures—reflect a strategic "global rebalancing." These efforts aim to reduce dependency on established financial networks and foster diversified economic ecosystems.
The changing landscape underscores a critical pivot: the question is no longer about which nation leads but which adapts most effectively. As countries experiment with decentralized systems and partnerships, the focus shifts from hierarchical dominance to resilience and innovation. This transition, while fraught with short-term disruptions, could pave the way for a more inclusive international structure, mitigating the entrenched inequalities of the past.
In this era of recalibration, adaptability emerges as the defining metric of success, signalling that the future global order will reward flexibility over hegemony.
Editor's note: CGTN's First Voice provides instant commentary on breaking stories. The column clarifies emerging issues and better defines the news agenda, offering a Chinese perspective on the latest global events.
The Cannibalisation of allies and partners by the Trump administration highlights the increasing importance of China and its stabilising role for both the world economy and multilateralism.
In the period from 1945, the US dominated global manufacturing with over 50% of the world’s total output.
The US domination was manifest in its preponderant military and industrial complex,
but it also began to decline almost immediately as the US attempted to subordinate the world economy and political activities to its own global vision of hegemony.
And then there was the 1949 communist revolution and the imposition of a bamboo curtain by the Americans as they reneged on their Cairo declaration and decided to not return Taiwan directly to China.
And today we're having a quick look at the Australian election and our Labor's
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leading in the polls by about 10 points.
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But what that really means is if they lose five, it's going to be 50-50.
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So 45 to 55 for Labor.
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Now, Australia is in trouble.
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the economy is going to have and look the imf said this quite a few years ago uh 10
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years of declining living standards so now labor has gone from a couple of a couple
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of surpluses for the last few years now it's running going to go straight back into
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deficits and that money is going to be going into health care
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renewables, education, and the biggest one, of course, defense.
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Why, of course, I'm not really sure why, of course, but housing is also big.
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Medicare, so giving better medications and so forth.
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All that's going to come under
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