SCO & BRICS latest news and insights
By Rhod Mackenzie
Germany's position as an industrial superpower may be at risk due to competition from the United States, declining interest in German goods in China, and an energy crisis caused by the lack of inexpensive Russian gas supplies. Bloomberg published this forecast on February 10th.
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By Rhod Mackenzie
In 2023, the Russian Federation became the leader in terms of trade turnover growth among China's partners. This was announced on February 11 by Ivan Zhelohovtsev, the director of the first Asian department of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
He noted in an interview with RIA Novo...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Russia has become the leading economy in Europe and the fifth in the world in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP). It has not only overtaken Germany, but is also preparing to catch up with Japan. What does PPP mean? And how has Russia achieved such a rise?
Russia has become t...
Russia's presidency of BRICS has resulted in a total revamp of the organization, South African sherpa Anil Sooklal has told in an exclusive interview.
Sookhal, who is also his country's sherpa for the G20 and IBSA (India-Brazil-South Africa), recalled that Moscow is one of the founding members of...
At first glance, the planned BRICS expansion seems unlikely to radically reshape the geopolitical status quo. But against the backdrop of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and mounting tensions between China and the US, the move may well have wider implications for the existing global order, writes Rachel...
By Wang Jinyan
Since the founding of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum, a dialogue initiative jointly set up by China and the League of Arab States in 2004, China-Arab relations have been scaling new heights.
As important players of the Global South, China and the Arab States have been str...
