00:01And it probably means that the international order based on rights and rules is currently being destroyed.
00:11But I'm afraid we have to put it in even harsher terms.
00:16This order, as flawed as it has been even in its heyday, no longer exists.
00:30And we, Europe, well, Peter Sloterdijk wrote a few weeks ago that Europe had just returned from a vacation from
00:43world history.
00:45Together, we've entered an era that once again is marked by power and big power politics very openly.
00:57First of all, we see Russia's violent revisionism, its brutal war against Ukraine, against our political order with daily cruel
01:12war crimes.
01:14But this is only the shrillest expression we see on a daily basis.
01:18We see other developments in the world as well that are different to what we in this room would have
01:27expected or discussed in the years before.
01:30China wants to be a leader in shaping the world and it has paved the ground for that over many
01:37years with strategic patience.
01:41In the foreseeable future, Beijing could be on an equal footing with the United States in military terms.
01:52China systematically uses dependencies of others and it redefines the international order in its own favor.
02:04If there had been a unipolar moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a unipolar moment in history, it
02:12has long passed.
02:12The United States claim to leadership has been challenged and possibly lost.
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