New technologies, from artificial intelligence to biotechnology, have global implications but are being introduced only within narrow national boundaries, says Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at the Astana International Forum, per reports from "Daryo" correspondent, Talgat Satybaldy.
The President of Kazakhstan stressed that all these factors are pushing the world order to a "critical point."
"The result is a growing distrust that has a negative impact on the functioning of well-known international forums, existing frameworks, security regimes, and non-proliferation mechanisms. So we face uncertainty, growing instability, and conflict. This, in turn, encourages increased spending on defense, and on the latest weapons, which, ultimately, guarantee nothing. This is also evidenced by the fact that for the first time in half a century, we faced the prospect of using nuclear weapons," - Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said.
Tokayev believes that economic policy is also used as a weapon. This standoff includes sanctions and trade wars, targeted debt policies, restricted access or isolation from funding sources, and investment controls. All this leads to a split, Tokayev emphasized.
"Taken together, these factors are gradually undermining the foundation on which the global peace and prosperity of recent decades are based: free trade, global investment, innovation, and fair competition. This, in turn, provokes social tension and schism within states and tension between them," - the head of Kazakhstan summed up.
Indeed, the threat of the usage of nuclear weapons continues to rise as conflicts broke out all over the world, and the Ukraine-Russia war tension relations between Eurasia and the West. While North Korea continues testing its missiles and rockets without informing any international organizations. The matter of a nuclear war is soon to become a matter of "when" rather than a matter of "if."
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