SCO & BRICS latest news and insights
By Rhod Mackenzie
The Chinese currency, the yuan, has overtaken the Japanese yen to become the fourth most used currency in international payments via the SWIFT system. Its share of the market has reached 4.7%, almost twice as much as last year. However, the data does not take into account the Rus...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The major BRICS countries of China,India and Russia are at the forefront of the use of and the the continued building of nuclear power plants to generate clean sustainable energy while the West has pinned its hopes on the so called renewables of Wind and Solar the BRICS are goin...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The major BRICS countries of China,India and Russia are at the forefront of the use of and the the continued building of nuclear power plants to generate clean sustainable energy while the West has pinned its hopes on the so called renewables of Wind and Solar the BRICS are goin...
Not a single high-ranking Chinese official went to the airport to see off US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who ended his visit to China so ingloriously. What were the key issues that led to the failure of the most important negotiations for Washington? What did Blinken demand from China regardi...
By Rhod Mackenzie
There is no longer any uncertainty regarding the future of the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS) after 2024, when the current five-year transit contract expires. It is unlikely that the contract will be renewed. However, this does not mean that transit will cease entirely...
China has expanded its arsenal of defensive trade tools with the introduction of a new law. Beijing has made it clear to its main trading partners, including the United States and a number of European countries led by Germany, that if they introduce tariffs and duties on the export products of the s...
