SCO & BRICS latest news and insights
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
With the countries of Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates joining the BRICS, the multilateral mechanism now includes the World's major global oil producers and importers. Analysts now predict that a wider adoption of local currencies will be used for its trade among B...
By Anna Koroleva
In July 2023, the share of the dollar in international settlements, according to the Swift system, rose to a record 46.5%. However, as experts note, the share of settlements going through Swift itself is noticeably decreasing, so that its statistics no longer reflect the entire tu...
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 Rhod Mackenzie
The expansion of BRICS is taking place in the context of a change in the global world order, the collapse of the previous one and the process of the forming a new multipolar world, in which individual players in different regions, as well as influential organizations, one of whic...
By Alexandra Yudina
The expansion of the BRICS was a personal defeat for the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell, said Ramon Schak, a journalist for the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung.
In his article, he emphasized that "so...
