SCO & BRICS latest news and insights
By Rhod Mackenzie
There are increasing signs that the Chinese economy is stabilising. August was the first month in more than a year that the profits at the leading industrial companies rose. According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) of China, profits in the last month of the summer ros...
By Yaroslav Lissovolik
The 2023 BRICS summit has clearly been one of the most historic and transformational BRICS summits on record – a major expansion was unleashed by the bloc, with six new members forming part of the BRICS core starting from January 1, 2024: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, t...
By Dr. Ibrahim Karatas
The global agenda is concerned with the enlargement of BRICS, a non-formal economic organization consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Though the group does not have an official status, it functions as an international organization and accepts or reje...
By Phumlani Majozi
A new era begins in geopolitics
The United States' dominance, that has been around for the past decades, is now being challenged by China. We are witnessing changes in the structure of geopolitical order, as China is becoming more and more assertive on the global stage.
It w...
The India-Middle East-Europe transportation corridor may be the talk of the town, but it will likely go the way of the last three Asia-to-Europe connectivity projects touted by the west - to the dustbin. Here's why.
The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) is a massive public diplomac...
By Rhod Mackenzie
For most of the last decade, the price of gold has been driven by the cost of money (interest rates): the lower the base rate fell, the higher the gold price went, and vice versa. Most analysts say that gold is the "anti-dollar", i.e. the asset that investors who do not trust fia...
