China’s Master Plan To Thwart American Dominance In Asia
One of China’s overriding strategic goals is to thwart the U.S. rebalance of attention and resources to the Asia-Pacific region. At the twin summits of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa forum...
View ArticleThe BRICS: Beyond The Hype
The BRICS grouping—comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—is as contentious as it is misunderstood. Skeptics dismiss the BRICS out of hand, arguing that the coalition is all talk and...
View ArticleWill the World Ever Boom Again?
The problem is that China’s recent slowdown from 10 percent annual growth to about 7 percent is only the beginning. The recent drops in housing and stock prices are harbingers of a further economic...
View ArticleCan India And China Use BRICS To Build A House?
It would be prudent for China to stop treating India as an economic laggard to itself that can be coerced into submission and realise that such actions only push India, against its will, towards the...
View ArticleLessons Learned In Tense China-India Border Row, But It Will Cast A Long Shadow
The protracted border row between China and India has ended in time for a summit of the world’s leading emerging market economies, but analysts say it will cast a long shadow over the geopolitical...
View ArticleEven With Modi Back On Board, China Will Find It Hard To Keep Emerging...
The confirmation that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will show up in the coastal city of Xiamen has cleared a major obstacle to a “successful” BRICS leader summit – an event that China has been...
View ArticleXi Says China To Boost Closer Development Partnership With India
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting with the President of China, Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit, in Johannesburg, South Africa on July 26, 2018. Photo/PIB Chinese President Xi...
View ArticleWill The BRICS Ever Grow Up?
In the two decades since Brazil, Russia, India, and China were recognized for their unique growth potential, they, along with South Africa, have so far proven incapable of uniting as a meaningful...
View ArticleA BRICS Currency Could Shake the Dollar’s Dominance
It’d be like a new union of up-and-coming discontents who, on the scale of GDP, now collectively outweigh not only the reigning hegemon, the United States, but the entire G-7 weight class put...
View ArticleWho Should Lead the Global South?
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