Imperialist West Digging Its Own Grave As Global South, China Rise, w/ Bikrum Gill

09/13/22 • 88 min

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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.

Follow Bikrum on Twitter @bikrumsinghgill: https://twitter.com/bikrumsinghgill

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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?

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

Follow Bikrum on Twitter @bikrumsinghgill: https://twitter.com/bikrumsinghgill

Listen to every episode of Rania Khalek Dispatches anywhere you get podcasts.

Apple: https://apple.co/3zeYpeW

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3za9DRK

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?

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