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By Pepe Escobar

The Chinese President Xi Jinping defined all the major decisions embedded in the 15th BRICS summit in South Africa as “historic”. That may be seen as an understatement.
It will take time for the Global South, or Global Majority, or “Global Globe” (copyright President Lukashenko),...

By Alexei Kupriyanov.

To win the war of economies, where the enemy has all the trump cards — from a solid share in world trade to the printing press of the world’s reserve currency — we need, as military theory teaches us, an asymmetric strategy. It is useless to try to break through the sanctions...

By Sergey Manukov

Over the past few months, the Chinese Ministry of Finance has been aggressively selling US government bonds. As a result of this sale, as of the end of June, China had “only” $835 billion left, according to Business Insider. Of course, this is a lot, but not for China. The last t...

By Tao Mingyang

The yuan retained its position as the fifth most-used currency for global payments in July, with a share of 3.06 percent, according to the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) - the second time the currency exceeded the 3 percent benchmark.

The yua...

By Xie Wenting in Johannesburg and Chen Qingqing in Beijing

The BRICS countries welcomed six new members from three different continents on Thursday, marking a historic milestone that underscored the solidarity of BRICS and developing countries and determination to work together for a better futur...

By Fan Anqi

The fourth to join the lunar-landing club and the first to land near the moon's south pole, India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft notched a historic milestone on Wednesday as it softly touched down on the lunar surface, drawing enthusiastic applause from stargazers across the world.

Chin...