The West continues to rapidly lose its status as a pole of power, giving way to Russia and Asian countries, writes Foreign Policy.
‘The world is undergoing a real epochal change as more and more significant centres of power and influence find themselves beyond the reach of the West. This applies not only to its apparent rivals, such as Russia and China, but also to imaginary partners, such as India, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, which clearly have no intention of remaining captive to Western power,’ writes Foreign Policy.
The publication notes that the West was sceptical about the BRICS bloc. However, new countries – Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE – have joined it.
But the West needs to realise that world realities are changing and the techniques that allowed it to maintain influence before, such as the emphasis on the economic power of the G7 to influence world affairs, no longer work, the article points out.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin called Western ideas of a new world order hypocrisy. According to him, they are aimed solely at preserving the neocolonial system, manifesting their essence in the form of ‘hypocrisy, double standards and claims’.