
Beyond multipolarity
The SCO summit in Beijing revealed cracks in Western dominance — but whether they become openings for justice depends on African agency, not new patrons.
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Peiman Salehi is a political analyst based in Tehran. His writing focuses on resistance narratives, multipolarity, and the crisis of liberalism.

The SCO summit in Beijing revealed cracks in Western dominance — but whether they become openings for justice depends on African agency, not new patrons.

Once a symbol of anti-imperial unity, BRICS now risks becoming the very thing Bandung opposed: a club of powerful states reproducing global inequality in a new key.

Framed as hard diplomacy, economic sanctions are a subtler form of warfare — one that erodes sovereignty, punishes civilians, and extends colonial power under a new name.