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By Pepe Escobar

As we enter incandescent 2024, four major trends will define the progress of interconnected Eurasia.

1.Financial/trade integration will be the norm. Russia and Iran already integrated their financial message transfer systems, bypassing SWIFT and trading in rials and rubles. Russi...

By Zamir Ahmed Awan

BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. It encompass about 27% of the world’s land surface and 42% of the global population. Brazil, Russia, India, and China are among the world’s ten largest countries by population...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has made his second trip to Beijing this year, visiting China on a working visit. At a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he announced a "historic increase in the level of relations" between the two states and recognized, for...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The US Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, was present at the yearly Reagan National Defense Forum held in California on Saturday. Her speech disclosed important insights that merit discussion. The Secretary of Commerce's attendance at the conference, which was predominantly go...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The 2023 Understanding China Conference took place in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, ended on Sunday, has become a vital platform to tackle the significant "understanding deficit" between nations and civilizations. It aims to promote mutual trust.

Understanding Chinese moderni...

By Vali Kaleji

On the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this mega project has been significantly affected by the war and conflict in Ukraine and the Western sanctions against Russia, writes Valdai Club expert Vali Kaleji.

In his article, Dr. Vali Kaleji, a Tehran-based expe...