The current political developments mark the end of the
post-Cold War order. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said this in his
lecture at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
As the U.S. Secretary of State noted, what the world is
experiencing now is more than a test of the post-Cold War order. It is
the end of it. According to Blinken, it is Russia and China that pose
significant challenges to the international order.
According to him, there used to be decades of relative
geopolitical stability in the world back then.
Today, however, the U.S. Secretary of State thinks
that forging international cooperation has gotten more complex. He called
Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine the most immediate, the most acute threat
to the international order. Meanwhile, according to him, the economic,
diplomatic, military and technological power of the People’s Republic of China
poses the most significant long-term challenge.
“And Beijing and Moscow are working together to make the
world safe for autocracy through their ‘no limits partnership,’” he
stated.
As Blinken noted this didn’t happen overnight, and what
brought the world to this moment will be the subject of study and debate for
decades to come.
