The dominant center of the world is shifting to Eurasia, according to the Hungarian prime minister
The West’s 500-year global hegemony is over and the future will belong to Eurasia, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has stated.
The idea that “the whole world should be organized on a Western model” and that nations will be willing to join it “in exchange for economic and financial benefits” has failed, Orban said at the Eurasia Forum in Budapest on Thursday.
The Western world has been challenged from the East, the Hungarian leader declared, adding that the “next period will be the century of Eurasia.”
“Five-hundred years of the civilizational dominance of the West came to an end,” Orban said.
According to the Hungarian leader, Asian countries have become stronger and proved they are capable of “rising, existing, and lasting as independent centers of economic and political power.” They now have both a…
