Russian officials plan to outline “the contours of a new world order” over the next month as Russia and China intensify their efforts to gain influence at the United Nations.
“Our idea is to hold a comprehensive, forward-looking strategic discussion about the contours of a new world order that is coming to replace the unipolar one,” Ambassador Vasily Nebenzia, the top Russian envoy at the U.N., told state media. “This conversation is long overdue.”Nebenzia will play a prominent role in stage-managing that effort, as Russia’s upcoming turn as rotating president of the U.N. Security Council will allow Moscow to shape the forum’s agenda for the month of April.
That brassy forecast comes just weeks after Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping told Putin that Beijing and Moscow are orchestrating “changes — the likes of which we haven’t seen for 100 years.” Yet their coordination also has galvanized an international backlash against their desired overhaul of the international arena.
The war in Ukraine intensified the diplomatic jockeying for influence across the developing world as a series of clashes at the U.N. General Assembly placed many countries across the Global South in the position of geopolitical swing voters. Russia and China have found some success in those capitals by invoking the memory of Western imperialism.
Yet Putin’s apparent dependence on Xi also could enhance New Delhi’s cooperation with U.S. and European countries, as India is wary of anything that enhances China’s power, particularly given that India has a sometimes-violent border dispute with China, which is driving a debate within India’s national security establishment.
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