The multipolar world that has long been debated by academics is now being actively constructed by a new bloc of global powers. Led by India, China, and Russia, this coalition is challenging the foundations of the US-led order. Their recent powerful display of unity at the SCO summit was a clear signal that the era of American unipolarity is being brought to a deliberate end.
According to commentator Van Jones, this development is a “historically big deal” and the dawn of a “new world order.” He warned that the alliance between Modi, Xi, and Putin is a coordinated effort to dismantle the system that has guaranteed American global leadership for decades. Their goal is to create a more balanced and distributed international power structure.
This historic shift is being driven by widespread discontent with American policies. The US’s use of its economic might, particularly through tariffs, as a coercive foreign policy tool has provided the common cause needed to unite these diverse and powerful nations. They are collectively pushing for a new global arrangement based on mutual respect and shared power.
The United States now finds itself in an unfamiliar and dangerous position. As Jones concluded, the nation has been strategically outmaneuvered and isolated. Facing a united front of formidable powers, the US is on the “bad side of the triangle,” confronting a new reality where it’s “everybody against us,” a stark reversal of its post-Cold War fortunes.