Expert: Western hegemony being replaced by new forces coming from East and South

Over the past five years, the share of the BRICS countries in global GDP has increased from 30 to 32 percent, while the combined share of the G7 economies decreased from 31.5 to 29.4 percent. The members of BRICS, SCO and other non-Western blocs are gradually displacing their geopolitical competitors from the world stage, and a kind of substitution of the West by the Global South (including the EAEU countries) is observed. Aleksei Avdonin, an expert at the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies, told sb.by more of the current trends.

“Differently speaking, new forces from the East and the South are replacing the Western hegemony, and the future lies primarily with those who can unite technology domestically. The West retains its superiority by concentrating the main technical centres that generate new developments in science, including the fundamental one, in these countries. However, the collective East and the Global South understand this perfectly well, creating platforms on their territories for the concentration of knowledge, scientific achievements, and technologies. The selection of smart, talented people in the collective East is much better than in the West, and we can now see that talented people do not leave for the United States but remain at home: in China, Russia, and the countries of the Middle East. Moreover, they act in the interests of their states. This trend will intensify and will definitely lead to the multipolarity, with various regional centres around the world,” Mr. Avdonin explained.

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Apart from active interaction within the framework of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, Belarus also intends to join the integration processes in the BRICS space: the republic has been invited to the BRICS summit scheduled to be held in Kazan (Russian Federation) in October. It is known that this international structure unites the strongest states of the planet and covers more than 40 percent of the world's population.

Belarus hopes to get the status of a BRICS co-operation partner in the top ten. Currently, the republic participates in absolutely all events held under the auspices of BRICS, and this has given a serious impetus to the additional development of relations with its members.