2023/09/14 04:12
[Central News Agency]US Secretary of State Blinken said today that the post-Cold War era has ended and that it has entered a fierce competition with authoritarianism. He named China and Russia as threats, saying that the United States will strengthen existing alliances, connect different allies, and build new alliances to respond to the challenges of the times.
Antony Blinken gave a speech at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in the morning, describing how the Biden administration can use the “historical turning point” at the end of the post-Cold War era and the early stage of fierce competition with authoritarianism. The diplomatic strategy of joint vertical and horizontal cooperation responds to current challenges.
Blinken said that more and more people are realizing that many of the core assumptions that shaped state behavior in the post-Cold War era are no longer applicable; the relative stability of geopolitics in the past few decades has gradually been replaced by fierce competition with authoritarianism.
Blinken singled out Russia and China, saying the former is “the most immediate and urgent threat” to the international order, the principle of sovereignty, territorial integrity, national independence and universal human rights, while the latter is the most serious long-term challenge. “And now Beijing and Moscow are working through the ‘Unlimited Partnership’ to create a safer world for dictators.”
As the Russia-Ukraine war showed, Blinken said that if the international order is attacked somewhere, the impact will not be limited to a single region.
Blinken said that the United States has grasped this new understanding and gathered allies across the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions to jointly defend shared security, prosperity, and freedom. He gave an example: Russia cut off natural gas supplies to Europe last winter, and Japan and South Korea immediately joined the United States to ensure that European countries had enough energy to survive the winter.
Not only that, Blinken pointed out that Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand are currently regularly participating in North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) meetings, and Europe, Canada and other countries have also joined the ranks of Asian allies to strengthen their tools and resist the economic coercion of the Chinese Communist Party.
In addition to strengthening existing alliances and connecting different allies together in innovative and complementary ways, Blinken said the Biden administration is also actively forging new alliances to respond to the most severe challenges currently.
Blinken gave an example. The United States is cooperating with the Group of Seven Major Industrial Countries (G7) and plans to inject US$600 billion (approximately NT$) by 2027 through the “Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment” 19 trillion) in new investment to narrow the global infrastructure gap.
In addition, Blinken pointed out that the United States is also working with the G7 to develop a set of international codes of conduct and common regulatory principles for artificial intelligence (AI). During the United Nations General Assembly, he will go to New York to host a conference to focus governments, technology companies and civil society on how to use AI to promote sustainable development goals.
Addressing other global challenges, Blinken said the United States is forging a new alliance to prevent the illicit manufacturing and trafficking of synthetic drugs and promote public health responses.
He said that last year alone, nearly 110,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, two-thirds of which were related to synthetic opioids, making them the “number one killer” of people aged 18 to 49. Not only is the United States suffering, almost every region of the world is seeing an alarming increase in synthetic opioids. “No country can solve this problem alone.”
He said that more than 100 governments and more than a dozen international organizations have joined the alliance, and members will meet in New York next week to expand related work. (Editor: Chen Zhengjian) 1120914
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