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- SCO and BRICS summit outcomes
- BRICS financial architecture and currencies
- AI safety and strategic competition
- AI sovereignty for smaller states
Episode 587 | Recorded: September 17, 2026
#BRICS #China #SCO #Multipolarity #Artificial0Intelligence #AISafety #DigitalSovereignty #TRIPP
Show Notes
Summary
In this episode of Conversations on Groong, we speak with Professor Warwick Powell about multipolarity, infrastructure, and the strategic implications of emerging power blocs. We discuss tangible outcomes from the SCO and BRICS summits, the shift toward local-currency settlement and financial alternatives to Western institutions, China’s role as an enabling power, and how countries like Armenia navigate the infrastructure competition between TRIPP and competing regional corridors. We also examine AI safety and digital sovereignty in a multipolar world, where both Washington and Beijing view artificial intelligence as a decisive strategic contest.Wrap-up
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Guests
Warwick Powell
Prof. Warwick Powell is Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Senior Fellow at Taihe Institute in Beijing. He is the author of “China, Trust and Digital Supply Chains”. “Dynamics of a Zero Trust World”. His work focuses on digital innovation, technologies, and international political economy.
Dr. Powell is the author of “Thermoeconomics in a Time of Monsters: Rethinking Theory, China and International Geopolitical Economy ”.
Hosts
Hovik Manucharyan
Hovik Manucharyan is an information security engineer who moved from Seattle to Armenia in 2022. He co-founded the ANN/Groong podcast in 2020 and has been a contributor to Groong News since the late 1990s.
Disclaimer: The views expressed by Hovik Manucharyan on the ANN/Groong podcast are his own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of his employer or any other organization.
Asbed Bedrossian
Asbed Bedrossian is an IT professional, and for years oversaw the central IT enterprise infrastructure and services at USC. His decades of experience spanned across IT strategy, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, enterprise applications, data center operations, high performance computing, ITSM, ITPM, and more.
Asbed founded the Armenian News Network Groong circa 1989/1990, and co-founded the ANN/Groong podcast in 2020.
