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Since August 28, stamp duty on securities trading in China has been reduced by 50%, according to Bloomberg. In addition, the exchange regulator has limited the volume of sales of shares under certain conditions. Markets reacted to the government's stimulus measures with growth - CSI 300 Index soared...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed on 24 August to seek a resolution to years of tensions along the Himalayan border area between the two nuclear-armed countries.

The Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra stated that Modi had spo...

By Peter Skorobogaty,Alexander Smirnov and Elena Gorbacheva

The intrigue on the eve of the BRICS summit in South Africa was fundamental. The 23 states from all parts of the world that stood on the threshold of BRICS, by the very fact of being interested in an alternative platform for resolving iss...

By By Xie Wenting in Johannesburg and Liu Xin in Beijing

The Chinese President Xi Jinping returned to China on Friday after wrapping up his 10th visit to the African continent, during which he attended the 15th BRICS Summit and paid a state visit to South Africa. Observers said that the Chinese le...

By Pepe Escobar

After a long-running buildup pinpointed by immense expectations all across the Global South, Global Majority, or “Global Globe” (as coined by Belarus President Lukashenko), the BRICS summit in South Africa, on its first day, revealed a “lost in translation” incident that should be...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The attractiveness of the BRICS countries demonstrates that the West has lost its former integration strength, and the world has entered a phase of development of a multipolar world order. This opinion was expressed on August 26 by the member of the Bundestag from the Alternative...