Multipolarity a necessity for fostering peace and prosperity
Source : globaltimes.cn – February 2, 2025 – Laurent Michelon
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202502/1327760.shtml
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Laurent Michelon is a former diplomat, advertising executive and entrepreneur who has worked 25 years in Greater China. He is the author of Understanding the Relation between China and the West, published in France in 2022. Follow Michelon on X @LH_86_. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn
2025 will be a year of geopolitical turmoil. What lies ahead may be the US’ continued attempt to maintain a unipolar world against the tide of multipolarity. The gloves are off, and it will be up to the major capitals of the Global South to contain the adventurism of the US Deep State and its vassals.
What will the Global South, and its main representatives— Beijing, Moscow, Brasilia, Delhi, Ankara, Tehran — do to fortify the trend of multipolarity?
BRICS, with the recent addition of Indonesia as a full member and Nigeria as a partner member, will be at the forefront of this battle for influence between a bellicose, moralist West and a pacifist, pragmatic South.
The members of BRICS will have to work hard in the media battlefield to defuse the idea that it is a movement positioned « against the West, » but rather an alternative to a deficient international order, open to all sovereign states who share the ideals of multipolarity: a few strong states that will stabilize politically and enrich economically the regions around them, and interact with the other regional power centers of the world.
This is what Carl Schmitt envisioned in his seminal book The Nomos of the Earth, written during World War II: a partition of the planet between regional Grossraüme (great space, spheres of influence) centered around powerful centers that control their space.
This year’s SCO meeting will be a much-needed exercise in coordination among SCO members, following the developments in Ukraine under the Donald Trump administration, to prevent any attempt to break the strategic partnership between the two Eurasian superpowers, China and Russia.
The shift to multipolarity has becomes urgently needed, as the Bretton Woods institutions, and the UN in particular, have shown their shortcomings in every single conflict around the world over the past 20 years, and their increasing irrelevance in fostering and nurturing peace and prosperity.
In 2025, we should expect the situation to get worse before it gets better. Their reluctance to being reformed, to become more representative of the evolutions of the world order, and to embrace the emergence of new powers, makes multipolarity a necessity for more than 7 billion of people who are not part of the Golden Billion in the West.
