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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 Rhod Mackenzie

The new Argentinian authorities are presently undecided about whether to join the BRICS alliance of major non-Western countries.
BRICS remains open to aid developing economies and protect their interests. Wang Wenbin, the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry,...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Abu Dhabi's choice to discard the dollar in its trade demonstrates the significant changes the world has undergone in recent years.
There is a new addition to the de-dollarisation supporters, according to cryptopolitan.com, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has ceased using the Ame...

By Pavel Devyatkin

Is there really a Russian-Chinese partnership in the Arctic? What is China’s role in the Arctic and how far does it go beyond climate change and environmental protection? These are some of the most hotly debated questions in Arctic security studies and they were at the top of my...

By Rhod Mackenzie

A seminar on the utilisation of the potential of the Việt Nam-China-Russia international intermodal rail transport route was conducted in Moscow.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Russia organised the event, which had a participation of 200 representatives from pertinent agencies of th...

By Thomas Lethoba

The 15th BRICS Summit saw leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa reach a consensus to ramp up efforts of expanding the bloc of nations, with the announcement of six additional countries.

In a move aimed at changing the world order, a five-nation group of emerg...