Establishing unipolar world order high on US agenda: Analyst

Press TV has interviewed Manuel Ochsenreiter, editor-in-chief of Zuerst in Berlin, to discuss a US plan aimed at boosting Navy patrols in the disputed waters of the South China Sea.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview. 

Press TV: Does the US have the right to rebut Beijing’s assertions of sovereignty?

Ochsenreiter: Out of the perspective of Washington, the US for sure thing they have the right to do that because in Washington we find the philosophy of international politics as world inner-politics. Terms like sovereignty, just as one example, do not really exist in the original meaning in the Washington narrative of international politics anymore. We have to see the American actions in the Pacific as the actions of an extra-territorial power there, violating the sovereignty of China.

We see in Washington the plan or will of the establishment of a unipolar world order. Unipolar world order means, one world, one center of the world, one government maybe at the end, and every conflict has to be solved on the basis of the so-called Western values. We have in China, the contradiction we have there, the idea of a multi-polar world with; this is a world with centers of power distributed all over the Continent China, India, the Russian Federation, Europe, Latin America, North America, Africa of course, the Islamic World would be such centers. So we see there the confrontation between these two ideas.

Press TV: Does this standoff have the potential to escalate in something more dangerous and serious?

Ochsenreiter: The Pacific Sea is one of the upcoming geopolitical hotspots; for sure it is already a geopolitical hotspot. If we see how China and the United States are handling their [differences]- not just since now but since decades. We see that China is gaining power, its military force is gaining power; they become stronger; they become more sophisticated, all of the technical level becomes better and better. China has a large army willing to defend the country and the political leadership willing to command the army to defend the sovereignty of the country.

While the US has done many so-called defense agreements with American proxies in the region with the Philippines, with Australia, with New Zealand, with South Korea, with Thailand and of course with Japan. So this confrontation exists already. We have now on the top news other geopolitical confrontations such as Syria, such as eastern Ukraine, and maybe also in future such as the southern Caucasus and also the northern Caucasus. But it is a matter of fact that the Pacific Sea will be one of the geopolitical hotspots of the future because the United States of America is not willing to accept the concept of sovereignty and the concept of a multi-polar world order. 

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