The recent SCO Summit, combined with the Victory Day parade in China, marked a significant move to achieve the goal of a new multipolar world. The presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean President Kim Jong Un, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, along with COAS Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, made it a historic occasion for the Chinese leadership to kick-start a new multipolar century.

US President Trump saw the gathering with awe and jealousy. The balance of power has definitely turned in favour of Asia. A long-awaited Asian century has emerged with a bang, ushering in a new era of multilateralism in a fractured world.

It was inspiring to see these powerful leaders gathering in China for a single purpose: to give peace a chance and advance stability and tranquillity in a genocidal world of terror. The leaders had an agenda of peace, prosperity, progress and development to find a new future for a world dominated by a singular side, with multiple options harbouring a bright future and balancing an unbalanced world. The achievement was enormous in the real sense of the word. The parade showcased military hardware, along with supersonic missile technology innovations, to show the US leadership and Nato that they must be ready for a new alternative leadership. It was the beginning of a multipolar world, balancing the archaic earnest texture of the past.

The end of World War II marked the start of new global politics, as the UN was formed and its vital organ, the UNSC, took a new turn in shaping world politics. The World Bank and the IMF became institutions of the economic powers that shaped the world’s economic prosperity, ultimately leaving the Global South suffering from numerous economic ills. Political power was exercised by the UN through the UNSC, shaping the new world order and continuing to influence the........

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