Interview: Security chaos mainly caused by US expansion of own system, values: expert

The main reason for a chaotic international security situation lies in the fact that the United States, today's single superpower, is forcing to spread its own values and system to other parts of the world, said a German expert on Thursday.

Gu Xuewu, director of the Center for Global Studies of Bonn University, made the remarks in an interview with Xinhua ahead of the annual Munich Security Conference scheduled to start on Friday in the southern German city of Munich.

Commenting on the current international security situation, Gu said while the traditional security sector is seeing manageable risks, the field of non-traditional security is threatened by growing crises.

"An outbreak of large-scale wars between nations is almost impossible today, and nuclear safety is basically under effective control," the professor said. "On the other hand, international terrorism as well as cyber attacks and infiltration have become the major threats facing the world."

An era is coming, in which non-traditional security threats rise as the main concern of international security, Gu commented.

"The main reason for the current chaotic situation is that the single superpower in today's unipolar era, which is lack of restrictions, is pursuing an absolute security for itself, and often at the cost of other countries' security," Gu said.

Taking a number of crises and conflicts in recent years as examples, he said unrest and resistance are inevitable when the single superpower views all other counties with different political system and values as potential threats to itself, and firmly believes that its own security can only be guaranteed by making those "different countries" accept its system and values.

Speaking of the Ukraine crisis, which is set to be a major issue of the upcoming security conference, Gu noted that the conflict is essentially a product of geopolitical wrangling between major countries.

While the United States now does not want a cease-fire in Ukraine before Russia pays a higher price, Germany and France think a completely collapsed Russia is not in the interest of Europe and are thus making every effort to help reach compromises between Ukraine and Russia to prevent a long-term split of Europe, he noted.

As for the future development of the Ukraine crisis, he said compromises might be reached this year, taking into account a number of factors including an expected weakened Russian economy result from Western sanctions. Endi