The steps toward a new world economic reality are escalating. After last week’s Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, the likely personal deliberations of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, the heads of Russia and China, at this week’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Uzbekistan are much anticipated.
This morning, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the press: “We believe — in unison with our Chinese comrades — that the existence of a unipolar world is impossible.” Moscow and Beijing agree that it’s “an impossible situation” when “the so-called ‘Golden billion’ is claiming the right to invent rules in economy, in politics and the right to impose its will on other countries.” (The term “Golden billion” refers to the super-wealthy of the Western world.) The foundation of the unipolar system has started to “seriously creak and wobble. A new reality is emerging.” RT’s coverage situated this in terms of Putin’s late August statements, that “the obsolete unipolar model is being superseded by a new world order based on the fundamental principles of justice, equality, and the recognition of the right of each nation and state to its sovereign path of development.” According to the Russian leader, “strong political and economic centers acting as a driving force of this irreversible process are being shaped in the Asia Pacific region.”
