The BRICS countries represent half the world’s population, 40% of fossil energy resources, 30% of global GDP and 50% of growth. They have the resources to change their export-oriented capitalist development model, but they don’t want to.
China plays a long game. There is plenty of evidence of Chinese advancements in science, technology, supply chains, manufacturing, arts, etc. The question is whether China (and Russia) will come through with morally based support befitting a leading world economy?
BRICS+ foreign ministers typically utter platitudes about wanting a conflict-free world and post-Western geopolitical arrangements, including a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. So this public recognition by Netanyahu of their usefulness should be humiliating enough. (At the United Nations, among BRICS+ members only Ethiopia typically joins Axis-of-Genocide powers by abstaining on resolutions criticising Israel, including a September 18 enforcement of the International Court of Justice’s ruling against abuses in Palestine.)
With the global economic rise of China, the US is targeting its own “back yard” to prevent a pivot eastwards. Photo: HE Jose Gregorio Biomorgi – Venezuela’s Ambassador to Syria in the Embassy in Damascus. Two days ago I had the privilege to have a conversation with the Venezuelan Ambassador at the Embassy of the…
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