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Pushing Back Against Propaganda

Multipolarity is deepening while Western power fades. To defend sovereignty and development and to promote peaceful coexistence, nations of the Global Majority, a collective term for ethnic groups that are not considered to be white and constitute approximately 85 percent of the global population, must strengthen their discourse capacity.

Today, the unipolar world of U.S. and Western hegemony is in the process of being replaced by a multipolar international system. Some refer to this process as leading to a “polycentric” world order and others refer to it as a “pluralist” world order. The main features of this new international situation developing before our very eyes are: the rise of China, and Asia at large, and the return

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