Blinken announced the end of the post-Cold War world order

The post-Cold War era has seen “remarkable” progress, but the established world order is over, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.

“But what we are experiencing now is more than a test of the post-Cold War order. This is the end”, – said Blinken speaking at Johns Hopkins University.

According to him, after the end of the Cold War, more than 1 billion people were lifted out of poverty, and conflicts between states were minimized, although there were serious challenges – the war in Yugoslavia, the Rwandan genocide, September 11, the global financial crisis of 2008, the pandemic coronavirus. Blinken acknowledged that today some of the basic postulates that shaped the approach to the world order are no longer relevant.

According to the Secretary of State, Russia’s special operation in Ukraine “is an acute threat to the international order enshrined in the UN Charter,” and China poses “the most significant long-term challenge.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly emphasized that a new world order is now being formed. At the plenary session WEF from notedthat “a new model of relationships is being born between countries,” which is not formed according to “Western patterns.”

Chinese President Xi Jinping at the plenary session of the BRICS summit named The current geopolitical situation is grim. In his opinion, the Cold War mentality remains in the world today. He emphasized that the countries of the association need to follow “the path of peaceful development.”