00:00Right, as cracks appear in Western unity over Gaza, the Global South is reassessing its role in shaping international responses.
00:08So how should Malaysia and Asia navigate this shift?
00:11Now we are joined by Dr. Firas Ali, Senior Lecturer of Faculty of Law and International Relations at UNIZAR.
00:17Thank you so much, Dr. Firas, for joining us.
00:20Right, with growing rifts, Dr. Firas, among Western allies as discussed just now over Gaza,
00:26do you see a move away from the US-led unipolar world towards a more multipolar order
00:32where countries maybe like China, Russia and regional blocs like ASEAN play a larger role?
00:37And how are shifting global power dynamics shaping the way ASEAN and the Global South engage internationally?
00:45Now, the rift over Gaza certainly reflects the deeper fracture within the West.
00:50But more importantly, it shows the limitation of the United States' moral leadership on this issue.
01:00Now, to compound the problem further, we are also witnessing a limitation in the United States,
01:09especially from a military perspective.
01:10For example, the inability of the United States to stop the Houthis in Yemen from firing ballistic missiles towards Israel,
01:21which is Washington's protectorate in the Middle East.
01:25Now, other countries are certainly taking note on this development,
01:32on the decline on both soft power and hard power of the United States,
01:37and using this as a way of recalibrating their relationship with other superpowers.
01:46Russia, China comes to the mind.
01:49BRICS is an example.
01:51We get a lot of countries keen on joining BRICS and to get all the incentives out of it.
01:57I mean, all these dynamics that we are witnessing right now,
02:00the epicenter goes straight to the genocide inside Gaza.
02:07Right.
02:08So, looking ahead, Dr. Firas, to Malaysia's ASEAN chairmanship in 2025,
02:14what role do you think regional cooperation play in navigating an increasingly multipolar and fragmented world order
02:21and also increased by this crisis in Gaza as well?
02:25Your thoughts?
02:26Well, Malaysia's chairmanship in ASEAN certainly comes at a time where we are seeing an increasingly fragmented global situation.
02:39And perhaps one way of Malaysia using its chairmanship to navigate ASEAN towards,
02:47towards, I mean, helping Palestinians in Gaza.
02:53Perhaps it could be through proposing the idea of having one of ASEAN's humanitarian agencies to help Gaza.
03:05A clear-cut example here is ASEAN's Coordination Center for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Management.
03:15In short, AHA, which can be mobilised to help the Gazans.
03:22Now, indeed, AHA is being created to help disasters within Southeast Asia context itself.
03:31But under these extraordinary circumstances, and perhaps under a more solidistic framework,
03:37Malaysia can help Malaysia can nudge other ASEAN members to support the idea of using AHA
03:44to help Palestinians inside Gaza, while at the same time enhancing the soft power of ASEAN at the global theatre.
03:55So, let's see in the results of ASEAN and USA more recently.
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