The Balance of Power Has Moved. Now What? @ThinkBRICS

The Balance of Power Has Moved. Now What? @ThinkBRICS

Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

Global power has shifted: economically, politically, and strategically. Yet much of the world still behaves as if nothing has changed.

In this video, we revisit a message first delivered by Jeffrey Sachs in 2020 and ask the urgent question for 2026: what happens when reality moves on, but mindsets don’t? From the rise of China to Western denial, this is a blunt look at a world that has already rebalanced, whether we like it or not.

This is not prediction.
It’s confrontation.

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