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International Business Times
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A Multipolar Financial World Might Be What We Needed All Along

You only need to watch the news for the past six months to see it: the post-war liberal consensus is drawing to a close. Recent United States legislation has only accelerated a shift that has been inevitable for some time, the move from a unipolar world to a multipolar one.

To many in the West, it feels as though this change arrived suddenly in 2025, with headlines dominated by tariffs, immigration, and social unrest, all symptoms of the deeper transformation underway. Yet this financial realignment has been unfolding quietly for perhaps two decades.

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