Pepe Escobar
4th August, 2017
Despite the China-India border standoff, US economic warfare against Russia, and other woes, the five countries’ trade ministers concentrated on creating conditions for better cooperation.
Posts Tagged ‘Brics’
Against all odds, BRICS nations get their act together
Posted by seumasach on August 5, 2017
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Brics, BRICS(Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) | Leave a Comment »
Tsipras needs a recovery plan
Posted by seumasach on February 3, 2015
3rd February, 2015
The actions of Alexis Tsipras, who heads the new Greek government, have been swifter than most expected, as he bids to deliver on the promises he made to voters in the run-up to the election on Jan 25.
Posted in Battle for Europe | Tagged: Brics, Chinese soft power, Tsipras government | Leave a Comment »
BRICS 2009-2014: Five years of lost opportunities for Europe …
Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2014
27th July, 2014
When the BRIC launched their own club in 2009[1], their goal was pretty simple: to provide a group strong enough to initiate and drive the reform of the global governance institutions. This dynamic alliance intended to pursue their adjustment to the new realities of a multi-polar world in which they were the main actors : to reconcile voting weight and financial participation in the IMF[2] and the World Bank, to integrate the constraints of the new powers in this WTO[3]“philosophy” and to involve the dollar in a basket of currencies of significant world economies in order to create a new international trading currency, a stronger and more representative[4] one…
Posted in Battle for Europe | Tagged: Brics, BRICS v. West, Euro-BRICS | Leave a Comment »
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