Meaning of axis of upheaval | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The alleged antiwestern collaboration between China, Iran, North Korea and Russia.
   neologism, no-plural
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see axis, upheaval.
   no-plural

Examples

“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.”

“Washington’s efforts at strengthening its Quad relationship is being met by a new quad, the so-called “axis of upheaval” involving Beijing, Moscow, Pyongyang, and Tehran.”

“While for decades the threats to the U.S.-led economic order⟳ were limited, today China and Russia, along with North Korea and Iran, have⟳ coalesced into an "axis of upheaval" whose shared ambition is nothing short of remaking the U.S.-led global liberal economic order⟳ of the past 80 years.”

“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.”

CEFR level