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India will host the 23rd Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on July 4 in a virtual format, and on Friday, China's Foreign Ministry announced Chinese President Xi Jinping's attendance of the meeting via video link amid growing expectations for SCO member...

By Uriel Araujo,

Recently, influential US Senators Chris Van Hollen (Democrat) and Lindsey Graham (Republican) sent a letter to the US Senate Armed Services complaining about the fact that Israel is blocking the transfer of American US Iron Dome batteries to Ukraine. Meanwhile, in an interview wi...

By Ivan Timofeev.

Underestimating the will of the Russian leadership to restore statehood and prevent a zero-sum game in the post-Soviet space was a major miscalculation. With each new crisis, the West did not take into account the realistic worst-case scenarios in which Russia would defend its in...

BRICS which comprises of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa which represent five major world economies in the Global South. Right from valuing local currencies more to working towards dethroning the U.S. dollar, these nations are together trying to shift the power from the Global North t...

By Andrew Mullen

Beijing continues to send a clear message – as it has for years – that enhancing overseas use of its currency, the yuan, is a priority, particularly in the face of US dollar hegemony.

The push has involved attempts to boost the yuan’s appeal as an alternative in international tr...

By Yaroslav Lissovolik

One of the key themes to be discussed at the BRICS summit in South Africa in 2023 is set to be the theme of BRICS expansion, namely the widening of the ranks of emerging market economies that form the BRICS core. With nearly 20 developing countries expressing interest in joi...