Borrell's acknowledgment that developing countries are looking for an alternative to the West

  The head of the European Union's foreign policy, Josep Borrell, has written in an article published on his blog saying: "The rules that govern the world are becoming obsolete and the developing countries of the southern world are looking for an alternative to the West." Borrell has admitted that: Today in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, North Africa, and of course in Asia, almost everyone thinks that there is a reliable alternative to the West, not only economically, but also technically, militarily, and ideologically. Josep Borrell Borrell's acknowledgment of the existence of developing countries' efforts to find an alternative to the Western powers becomes more meaningful considering the current general trend of the world, which is moving towards a world of several camps, while at the same time reducing the control and influence of the country of the West. Regarding the changes happening in Africa and the efforts of developing countries to find "new partners instead of the Western style", the Head of Foreign Policy of the European Union has claimed that:

"These new players (instead of the Western style) do not ask the rulers of the country that which people are in prisons or where the wealth of those countries goes, and this issue makes many of these rulers happy." In this way, Borrell has tried to relate the current tendency of developing countries to turn their backs on Western powers, including Africa, and the indifference of competing Western nations such as China and Russia regarding issues of human rights and financial corruption. This is despite the fact that, in some countries that are developing the protocols of the United States and the West in general, there are serious violations of human rights, and financial corruption occurs regularly in those countries without facing an effective response from the West. The issue of developing countries abandoning the hand of the West and looking for alternative ways has also been raised by high leaders of Western countries such as the French President, Emmanuel Macron. In his speech at the Munich Security Conference in February 2020, Emmanuel Macron admitted that the position of the West in the international arena has weakened and the balance of power in the world has changed due to the emergence of new powerful powers.

Macron said: "We can see some weakness of the West. Values have changed and new forces have emerged." Emmanuel Macron Currently, there is a struggle between the powers that control most of the affairs of the Western world and their competing powers at the international level. For several centuries, the West has ruled the world and has always been exploiting other peoples and nations, during the colonial period and in the era of their imperialism. During the Cold War and after it, the United States, as the leader of the West, made great efforts to expand its control in the world. However, the state of the world and the international system has gone through a fundamental change, and now the leaders of Western countries admit themselves that the period of Western assertiveness has passed and is over. In the post-Cold War period, international trends in various fields have led to the emergence of great economic, political and military powers such as Russia, China, and India in the international arena, despite the great efforts made by the United States and its allies for to maintain their influence and the system of one camp in the world.

Those new forces emerging in the form of institutions such as BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization or the Eurasian Economic Community, are making efforts to establish a new direction in world politics, economy, trade and finance. Currently the West, led by the United States, is facing competitors like China and Russia. China, which is now the second largest economic power in the world after the United States, is expected to become the largest economic power in the world and dust the United States by 2030, and this issue raises a big question mark about the country's economic and commercial leadership of the West, especially the United States. Russia also, after a period of decline in the 1990s, since 2000 and after Vladimir Putin took power, started a process of self-renewal and reconstruction, and is now the main political and military opponent of the West, especially the United States.