MUNICH — An intensifying competition between the United States and China will divide the world into “a new bipolar order,” the European Union’s top diplomat predicted.

“There will be a new bipolar order between the U.S. and China — which, of course, will not cover the entirety of international relations, but it will play an integral role,” Josep Borrell, a Spanish politician who leads the EU’s diplomatic corps, told the Munich Security Conference on Sunday.