axis of upheaval

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The alleged antiwestern collaboration between China, Iran, North Korea and Russia. neologism,no-plural
    — The four powers increasingly identify common interests, match up their rhetoric, and coordinate their military and diplomatic activities. Their convergence is creating a new axis of upheaval—a development that is fundamentally altering the geopolitical landscape.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see axis, upheaval. no-plural
    — Argentina’s financial tremors, plus the spectacle of a near-coup in oil-rich Venezuela in April and a heating-up guerrilla war in Colombia, have drawn attention to what Mr. Shifter calls the “axis of upheaval,” and put the region as a whole on the world’s “troublespot” list.

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Coined by Richard Fontaine and Andrea Kendall-Taylor on April 23, 2024, by analogy with terms such as axis of evil.
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