Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced that the decline in power and influence of the United States is setting the world on a path towards an international collision unless world leaders can find a ‘new balance.’
Orban suggested at a Transylvanian conservative festival over the weekend that the balance of global power is shifting at an unprecedented pace and is making the world far more dangerous as a result. The “million dollar question,” Orban asserts, is whether the world is able to avoid the mass collision.
“The USA’s dominance on the world stage is constantly waning. They are not happy, they want to stay on top of the world forever,” argued the Hungarian Prime Minister, highlighting the political, economic, and militaristic rise of China.
He suggested that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s international projects – including the One Belt and One Road Initiative, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and the BRICS organization – are creating a favorability of process that is becoming an “inconvenient truth” for the United States, especially since many countries are turning away from the West’s values.