Groong Links:
Guest(s):
Topics:
- 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
Groong Links:
Guest(s):
Topics:
- 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
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.
Dziunik Aghajanian - on Armenian Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, the Pashinyan Agenda, and Mother Armenia
Guest:
Topics:
- Intro to Ms Aghajanian
- Career path, Mentors, Influencers
- Parting ways with the MFA
- How did Armenia Resist Turkish Pressure prior to 2018
- Impressions of 2018 events
- On Pashinyanâs Policies to Surrender Artsakh
- Letter Planning the Surrender
- Messaging Aliyev to begin Instigations
- Changing Security Doctrine
- The Myth of Western Security Guarantees
- Pashinyanâs Fiction re Alma Ata and Madrid Principles
- On Armeniaâs National Interests
- On Armenian
Read MoreDziunik Aghajanian - on Armenian Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, the Pashinyan Agenda, and Mother Armenia
Guest:
Topics:
- Intro to Ms Aghajanian
- Career path, Mentors, Influencers
- Parting ways with the MFA
- How did Armenia Resist Turkish Pressure prior to 2018
- Impressions of 2018 events
- On Pashinyanâs Policies to Surrender Artsakh
- Letter Planning the Surrender
- Messaging Aliyev to begin Instigations
- Changing Security Doctrine
- The Myth of Western Security Guarantees
- Pashinyanâs Fiction re Alma Ata and Madrid Principles
- On Armeniaâs National Interests
- On Armenian
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