Are Russia & China imperialist like the US? Will the decline of the west lead to more fascism in the global north? What is sovereignty? Is every country entitled to it? Where do sanctions fit in? What does it mean that the Global South is refusing to get on board with them? And what are the alternatives to the current so-called rules-based international order? 

To discuss this and more Rania Khalek was joined by Bikrum Gill, who teaches at the department of political science at Virginia Tech. 

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TIME CODES 

0:30 Intro

2:06 Relevance of imperialism

6:32 China as an alternative: Is China imperialist?

11:14 Projecting European colonialism onto China

15:34 Ukraine proxy war & Western decline

19:39 Is Russia imperialist in Ukraine?

26:02 A changing Global South?

37:19 Resistance movements

40:33 Sanctions 

45:20 Racial Capitalism 

50:21 Sovereignty

1:00:00 Reparations for imperialists?

1:09:22 Disempowered Americans

1:19:16 Alternatives?