Internationalism No. 80, October 2025 Page 10 From the series Asian giants The Chinese bourgeoisie is reflecting on the crisis in the world order and looking towards Asia: towards the tumultuous capitalist development of the continent’s working-class conurbations; towards the political and military upheavals that this development generates and continually exacerbates; towards rearmament; and towards the foreign policy initiatives of the middle powers, on the move to make room for themselves in the twilight of the old global order. The world today is at a turning point of profound turmoil. The Russian-Ukrainian war is not just an isolated conflict; it is a microcosm of the disintegration and reorganisation of the global order. From the White House to the Kremlin, from Paris to Brussels, from changes in national defence strategy to the restructuring of national security logic, it is becoming increasingly clear that the old rules-based system is failing...