Indian minister: US dominance diminishing

Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has said that the dominance of the United States is diminishing.

Jaishankar made these remarks in an interview with PTI, according to TASS.

Jaishankar especially referred to the declining influence of the United States, the conflict in Ukraine, the fighting in Gaza, attacks in the Red Sea, tensions in the South China Sea, the challenge of terrorism in different geographies and advent of new technologies as the drivers of the “churn”.

"The United States is still the premier power of the world. But for a variety of reasons, you can say, the next lot of powers are so much closer to the United States than they used to be. Also, the US itself has changed its posture vis-a-vis the world,” he said.

"I think the combination of all of this today poses a kind of a picture of great churn, and on top of it the competition is sharpening", he noted.

"Today, you have a conflict in Ukraine, you have fighting in Gaza, you have these attacks in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea, you have tensions in the South China Sea, you have terrorism in different geographies, you have the kind of problem that we are having on the LAC [Line of Actual Control] with China but other countries also have their own issues with China,” he said.