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Based on original research carried out with Global South Insights, dossier no. 72 analyses the tectonic changes taking place in the world and the new mood in the Global South.

As we commemorate eighty years since the people’s victory in the World Anti-Fascist War, we must remember who truly saved humanity – and honour their sacrifice with the truth.

The US-led militarisation of the Pacific, aimed at China, is intensifying. The ongoing Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise features 25,000 military personnel from 29 countries.

This dossier looks at how the US-led New Cold War against China is destabilising Northeast Asia, focusing on the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan Strait, and Japan.

The return of Donald Trump signals an upheaval in global politics. This issue examines the global rise of illiberal movements, the collapse of the neoliberal order, and the fissioning ideological spectrum. As the world reorganises, what new order will emerge? Contributors analyse China-Russia cooperation, multipolar visions, and pathways towards a world without hegemony.

The sinking of an unarmed Iranian frigate in the Indian Ocean exposes India’s hollow foreign policy and silent subordination to US-Israeli aggression, threatening regional sovereignty and India’s own strategic autonomy.

Across the Pacific, Indigenous communities lead a growing wave of sovereignty against ongoing legacies of Western colonialism in the region, from the assault on Māori rights in Aotearoa to the US and French military presence in wider Oceania.

Today, in the heightened New Cold War that the US is imposing on China, this infrastructure is expanding. The same island that was sacrificed as a battlefield in 1945 is being prepared for sacrifice again.

No political force in Asia could legitimately drive a Pan-Asian agenda. There simply was no intellectual or political resource generated during the Cold War that developed a progressive pan-Asian platform.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is the only real military bloc in the world – one whose mandate and ambitions stretch far beyond the North Atlantic and, in fact, constitute the greatest threat to world peace.