The Kremlin said on Monday that it agreed with U.S. President Joe Biden on the need to build a "new world order", but that it disagreed that the United States was capable of building it. In a call with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the U.S. was talking about an "American-centric" world order that would not exist in future. The exchange was emblematic of a contest, playing out against the background of the Ukraine and Gaza wars, in which Russia is trying to persuade developing countries to join it in building a new world free of U.S. "hegemony".