Pak Sahafat – Jack Reed, Democratic Senator and Chairman of the Armed Forces Committee of the US Senate, said that China and Russia are seeking to change the international order and the world has entered a three-way nuclear competition.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency, citing Sputnik, this Rhode Island state senator said: We must accept that America faces an existential challenge between democracy and autocracy. Beijing and Moscow are seeking to change the international order by using military and economic pressure and exploiting vulnerable countries.
Speaking at the US Senate Armed Forces Committee, he added: America must provide an alternative to this type of foreign policy.
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Senator Reid stated that the world has now “entered the period of trilateral nuclear competition” due to the “expansion of China’s nuclear arsenal” from the bilateral competition between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
He emphasized that the long-term strategic competition between great powers will not only be about military and economic power, but about “ideas”.
Meanwhile, Anatoly Antanov, the Russian ambassador to America, said on Saturday: Russia’s main goal is to establish a democratic world order based on equality and respect for international law; Such an order, which is based on the inseparable principle of security, is able to provide conditions for fair development for all countries, where the international interests of each country are respected.
Also, the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, Agilbey Jabarov, stated on Monday that stability in the current world order is gradually losing its relevance and the world is moving to another stage.