Everywhere you look, you can see the decline of Western hegemony, as the world is increasingly multipolar. Ben Norton analyzes the rise of China, development of Global South economies, and increasing unity in Asia. A symbol of this was the historic ASEAN-GCC-China Summit held in Malaysia, which supplements BRICS in pursuit of dedollarization, South-South economic integration, and infrastructure construction.

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0:00 Weakening US dominance

0:22 Industrial production

0:46 China is world's largest economy

1:22 Decline of Western hegemony

1:53 Rise of Global South

2:45 Global South is Global Majority

3:44 Trump is accelerating US decline

4:28 BRICS expansion

5:46 ASEAN-GCC-China Summit

7:21 ASEAN

7:41 Southeast Asia's population

8:54 Southeast Asia's economy

9:41 GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council)

10:50 ASEAN-GCC-China Summit joint statement

11:26 ASEAN's trade with China

11:47 RCEP

12:22 Palestine

12:54 Opposition to Trump's tariffs

13:44 De-dollarization

14:57 Petroyuan challenges petrodollar

16:09 Infrastructure

16:32 Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

16:57 New Silk Road

17:32 Railroads linking China to SE Asia

18:59 Energy

19:54 China: world leader in renewable energy

20:08 China's solar power capacity

20:44 China's affordable green energy tech

24:38 Nuclear power

27:16 Other issues discussed

27:55 Multipolarity

28:41 The ASEAN Way

29:35 Cautious optimism

30:31 Global South-led alternatives

31:05 Outro