Growing US’ competition with Russia, China, marks end of previous world order: Blinken

TASS :
The growing US’ geopolitical competition with Russia and China marks the end of the post-Cold War world order, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, speaking at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

“What we are experiencing now is more than a test of the post-Cold War order. It’s the end of it,” he noted.

“Decades of relative geopolitical stability have given way to an intensifying competition with authoritarian powers, revisionist powers.”

The Secretary of State claimed that the Russian special military operation in Ukraine is “the most immediate, the most acute threat to the international order.”

“Meanwhile, the People’s Republic of China poses the most significant long-term challenge, because it not only aspires to reshape the international order, it increasingly has the economic, the diplomatic, the military, the technological power to do just that,” he added.

“Beijing and Moscow are working together to make the world safer for autocracies,” Blinken claimed.

Thus, Blinken said, the world is experiencing a pivotal moment: one era ends and another one begins.

He opined that the decision that will be made now will shape the future for decades.

Meanwhile, China is one of the beneficiaries of the existing system and does not seek to challenge or subvert this order. However, the US has viewed any legitimate demand made by China, even those that reflect the reasonable demands of the majority of developing countries, as a challenge and ill-intentioned sabotage.

Xin Qiang, deputy director of the American Studies Center of Fudan University, believes that US irrational crackdown on China will only irritate China and other developing countries.

Many developing countries share common demands with China, but the US opposes whatever China proposes and intends to strangle its legitimate right for development.

This will ultimately lead to the destruction of the existing international order and be counterproductive to the US’ goals.

The US believes that by containing China, it will gain an advantage.

However, whatever damage they’re doing to China, it also backfires on the US and even the world.

The US no sees China as a competitor and challenger, opposing and obstructing anything that may benefit China, regardless of its impact on the US. This approach not only fails to maintain US hegemony but also leads it further away from the right direction.

Today, the US is embroiled in simultaneous confrontations with China and Russia.

The US needs to think carefully, as it will be more difficult to engage in a “new cold war” compared to the previous one.

In the 1970s, the US GDP accounted for nearly one-third of the global total, but now it is only one-fourth.

Its two major opponents are the nuclear power Russia and the economic powerhouse China.

In order to defeat Russia, the US must ultimately dismantle its nuclear deterrence, which would be a thrilling adventure.

As for China, the US is attempting to stifle its development by imposing unlimited technological restrictions, but it is unable to completely decouple from China economically.

For the US and its main allies, China is either their largest single trading partner or one of the largest.

Today, the US is a reckless strategic aggressor, attempting to unite its relatively weaker strength with its allies to wage a new cold war.

It should be noted that the power of US allies has declined significantly, and the unity of the “West” is crippled due to the US transitioning from a “blood donor” to a “vampire”.