Jeremic on SCO Summit: Multipolarity Is Reality in Development

Vuk Jeremic (People's Party photo)

The forthcoming summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), to be held in China’s city of Tianjin, bears great symbolic significance and will show the measure in which multipolarity is not just a theoretical concept, but a reality in development, the former Serbian foreign minister, Vuk Jeremic, assessed on Aug. 28.

In a text he wrote for the Chinese Media Group (CMG), Jeremic declared that the summit, to be held on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, “comes at a time when it is clear that the unipolar era, marked by U.S. domination after the Cold War, was a thing of the past, while the world takes a growing multipolar form.”

In the decades after the fall of the Berlin wall, it seemed that the U.S. obtained an uncontested and lasting hegemony, primarily thanks to controlling three important monopolies, Jeremic wrote in the text titled “From Monopoly to Multipolarity: Ahead of the SCO Summit in Tianjin.”

“Technological monopoly no longer exists: China is a global leader in many fields and in some, like the ‘green’ technologies and telecommunication, it has even surpassed the U.S. It no longer has monopoly on military power, either – the wars in the Ukraine and the Middle East show that U.S. force cannot shape global trends unilaterally, or that other countries are restrained in resorting to military force despite international opposition.