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Chinese President Urges BRICS, Sino-India Cooperation
Chinese President Xi Jinping said here Tuesday that cooperation among BRICS countries will help make the global economy more balanced, improve global economic governance and promote democracy in...
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China And Its African History
On the second leg of his first overseas trip as China’s head of state, Xi Jinping is visiting a number of destinations in Africa, including Tanzania, the Republic of Congo, and South Africa where he...
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India and China: New Chapter, Old Challenges
President Xi Jinping is expected to hold his first meeting as China’s new leader with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this week, along the sidelines of the March 26 BRICS Summit in South Africa. The...
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The Emerging Markets Look More Like Submerging Markets
The ascendance of the emerging markets was supposed to be brought into sharp relief as the world recovered from the financial crisis. But since they peaked in late 2007, the BRICs—Brazil, Russia,...
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India: A Poor Country That Happens To Be Very, Very, Big
Is India different? Last month, India’s finance minister confidently declared that nothing could stop his country from becoming the world’s third-biggest economy. He may well be right, but size alone...
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Capitalism Under Fire
It’s five years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, on 15 September 2008. Since then, the legitimacy of capitalism as a way of organising society has been undermined; its promises of prosperity,...
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The Changing World
And what’s happening in the world today? Are the issues facing us changing, or are they the same the world battled with a decade ago? There are some surprises ahead. Here are are the 10 stealth...
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A New Bank, BRIC By BRIC; India To Preside
Leaders of the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — all emerging market nations — launch a $100 billion development bank and a currency reserve pool in their first concrete step toward...
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Can India And China Be Friends?
China has lots of capital, and India needs to build a huge amount of infrastructure. But, as ever, something that seems simple on the surface is made considerably murkier due to politics. Of the many...
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A Good Question To Ask
What do the 2,400 people who work for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) actually do? Read Here – BrookingsFiled under: Global Economy Tagged: BRICs, Economy, Europe, Financial crisis, Geopolitics,...
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Here’s the $17 Trillion Reason Why the BRICS Summit This Week Is a Big Deal
Leaders of the so-called BRICS countries are meeting starting Wednesday in Ufa, Russia. Here’s what you need to know about these emerging market economies to follow the summit. Read Here – Bloomberg...
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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...
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The 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...
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Will 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...
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Xi 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...
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