SCO & BRICS latest news and insights
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
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...
