US-China-Russia Rivalry Increases, Foreign Minister Blinken Calls the End of the Post-Cold War Order, a New Era Begins

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. (Source: Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

JAKARTA - The United States' increasing geopolitical competition with Russia and China marks the end of the post-Cold War world order, said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

"What we are experiencing now is more than just a test for the post-Cold War order. This is the end of it all," he said, as reported by TASS, September 14.

"Decades of relatively stable geopolitical stability have given way to increasingly intense competition with authoritarian, revisionist powers," he continued.

The US Secretary of State further said that Russia's special military operations in Ukraine constituted "the most pressing and acute threat to the international order."

"Meanwhile, the People's Republic of China represents the most significant long-term challenge, because it not only aspires to reshape the international order, but also increasingly has the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to do so," he explained.

"Beijing and Moscow are working together to make the world safer for autocracies," Blinken said.

Thus, continued Minister of Foreign Affairs Blinken, the world is experiencing an important moment: one era ends and another begins. According to him, the decisions that will be taken now will shape the future for decades to come.