Jalife-Rahme sees a tripolar world in the future of geopolitical configuration

▲ The author of The Five Prices of Oil also addressed misinformation in the media and on social media. Photo courtesy of the IPN

Fabiola Palapa Quijas

La Jornada Newspaper, Saturday, June 28, 2025, p. 5

International affairs specialist Alfredo Jalife-Rahme argued that the future of international geopolitics is headed toward a tripolar world with the United States, Russia, and China , as the Donald Trump administration seeks to break the strategic alliance between Moscow and Beijing.

The La Jornada contributor participated yesterday in the 42nd International Book Fair of the National Polytechnic Institute with the lecture "The Inevitable New Tripolar Order: G2 Russia and China plus the United States?", in which he discussed the role of the great powers, disinformation, and the interests that pull the strings of the conflict between Iran and Israel.

According to Jalife-Rahme, Russia's partnership with China arose from a mistake Obama made, which led those countries to develop cooperation across all areas and agreements, in addition to supporting each other in key global situations.

There's such a strong complementarity in scientific collaboration at all levels—space, military, and missile—that they created a G2, whose name they dare not reveal . He mentioned that Russia has the famous Oreshnikov missiles, invisible, undetectable, and unstoppable.

The academic commented that, unlike China or Russia, the United States has only three things left: the dollar, which is devaluing and could fall; propaganda, because it has its own repeaters in the Western world; and submarines.

On the global stage, Jalife-Rahme emphasized that learning Mandarin is important today because it's the language of the future, thanks to China's growth in the geopolitical and economic landscape. He also highlighted the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and technology, as well as understanding the new technological language.

Regarding China's supremacy in the field of AI, the analyst mentioned that the Pentagon's cybersecurity chief acknowledged that Beijing has a 20-year lead in that area. "They have their work cut out for them ," he added.

Another topic the author of The Five Prices of Oil also addressed was misinformation filled with deception in the media and social media. For example, he noted that during the 12-day war, people took to the streets to celebrate the end of the conflict, but he didn't see anyone coming out in Israel, so he recommended people stay well-informed.

He explained that in this multidimensional transition of the multipolar world, there are five oil prices, the combination of which helps to elucidate its volatile price. In my book, I talk about oil prices; don't think I jumped in at a second to 12: we've been at this for years, at least 20. There are many oil prices: economic, financial, speculative, geopolitical, and misinformation .

Jalife-Rahme explained that he has a nose for misinformation because it's all part of what he calls a brain-freeing event , where everyone can work out the thesis, the antithesis, and create a synthesis of the topic to be deciphered.