The awkward drama over if South Africa would fulfill its treaty obligations to the International Criminal Court (ICC) by arresting Russian leader Vladimir Putin during the upcoming BRICS summit in Johannesburg was apparently resolved on Tuesday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first state visit to Egypt on Saturday, landing in Cairo after departing the United States for two days of meetings with Egyptian business leaders and officials, including President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Thursday that Moscow favors expanding the BRICS economic bloc to include more nations, but France will not be one of those new members.
South African Police Minister Bheki Cele and a group of his senior officials visited China last week for five days of discussions and training with Chinese police officials. Their schedule included talks about security preparations for the August BRICS summit to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, and security for projects under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
French President Emmanuel Macron reportedly asked South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to invite him to the BRICS summit in Johannesburg this August, in a June 3 phone conversation that was made public this week.
Petroleum Minister Musadik Malik of Pakistan confirmed on Monday that his country made a major purchase of Russian crude oil using the Chinese yuan currency, presented as a rare public relations victory for a government struggling to contain routine riots.
Honduras Foreign Minister Enrique Reina told China’s state-run Global Times his country is joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
The European Commission has publicly welcomed the end of the American petrodollar, heralding what they describe as a new “multipolar global currency regime”.
Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro said on Monday that he would like to join BRICS, the economic alliance between Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa that will hold its next summit in Johannesburg, South Africa in August.
The government of South Africa published a notice on Monday that it would grant diplomatic immunity to all attendees of the BRICS summit in August.
Radical leftist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed 15 agreements with genocidal communist Chinese dictator Xi Jinping during an in-person summit in Beijing on Friday, vowing cooperation on everything from space exploration to news media.
The governments of Brazil, now under the leadership of radical leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and communist China announced an agreement on Wednesday to no longer use the U.S. dollar to conduct trade, instead relying on the Chinese yuan and Brazilian real.
Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping reiterated his commitment to cooperation with Saudi Arabia in a phone call to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday, following multiple announcements from Saudi state oil company Aramco of major investments in China this weekend.
Western sanctions against Moscow have insulated the Russian financial system from the banking crisis, the Kremlin claims to believe.
South African officials confirmed last week that the BRICS coalition – South Africa, China, India, Russia, and Brazil – are actively considering expanding membership, a proposal that would potentially force arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran into an alliance.
The Kremlin on Monday offered full support for Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and denounced supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro for rioting in the capital over the weekend.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said during a visit to Riyadh this weekend that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is interested in joining the BRICS coalition, a trade and security organization led by Russia and China.
Iran and Argentina recently submitted applications to join an association of emerging economies known as BRICS, which is headed by China and Russia, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
Brazilian Ambassador to China Paulo Estivallet de Mesquita told the communist country’s Global Times propaganda newspaper in an interview published Thursday that self-proclaimed conservative President Jair Bolsonaro’s country has a “great interest” in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Despite his international pariah status after invading Ukraine, Russian leader Vladimir Putin was a welcome guest at the 14th summit meeting of the BRICS forum on Thursday.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping delivered a keynote address to the BRICS Business Forum on Wednesday that urged foreign investors to “do business in China” despite growing concerns about its costly coronavirus lockdowns, unsteady economy, unfair trade practices, human rights abuses, refusal to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and territorial aggression.
Russian companies have increasingly turned to China and India to sell products originally intended for U.S.-allied markets in recent months due to Western sanctions against Moscow, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Tuesday, noting that these alternative transactions are often settled in local currencies.
BEIJING (AP) – A Chinese diplomat says NATO should stick to what he claimed was a promise not to expand eastward.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he would “continue being neutral” on the issue of the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Wednesday invited Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to visit Russia at an unspecified time in the future, Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency reported.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping gave a lengthy teleconferenced address to the BRICS group of emerging economies on Tuesday, making a bid to restore and dominate what Chinese state media described as a tottering coalition riven by unreasonable animosity toward China from two of the other members, India and Brazil.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told fellow heads of state at the BRICS summit on Tuesday that the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) “urgently needs reforms” and that its “supposed monopoly on knowledge” hurt the fight against the Chinese coronavirus.
Leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — collectively known as BRICS, a coalition of the world’s major emerging economies — held their 12th annual meeting on Tuesday in a teleconference hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in South Africa as a guest of the BRICS annual summit on Thursday, celebrated that his nation had tripled the number of its embassies in Africa under his rule.
Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping offered a rousing defense of globalism and suggested “the evolution of global governance system will have a profound impact on the development of all countries” during Wednesday’s opening of the BRICS summit in South Africa.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin during the annual BRICS summit in South Africa to discuss the ongoing conflict in Syria, he announced on Wednesday.
Chinese Communist Party head Xi Jinping landed in South Africa Monday night for the third leg of his regional trip and spent Tuesday negotiating with President Cyril Ramaphosa, ultimately signing a million-dollar investment deal with his country.
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Pakistan has rebuked a declaration by the BRICS nations, supported the Muslim-majority country’s ally China, that denounces Islamabad-affiliated terrorist groups as a threat, bringing the alliance of deveoloping countries closer in line with positions of the United States and its allies.
The BRICS coalition of nations has officially denounced various Islamic terrorist groups affiliated with Pakistan without naming the country, marking a significant victory for India while hinting that China might be changing its position towards its ally Islamabad.
China increases its funding for the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) international alliance to fight the “protectionism” espoused by U.S. President Donald Trump.
China’s state-run Xinhua news service reports that Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the BRICS economic summit on Sunday and “agreed to appropriately deal with the latest nuclear test conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.” For the moment, the nature of that appropriate response can only be left to the imagination.
This story originally appeared in The Guardian: A dark shadow is looming over the world after more than half a century of peace, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has said after North Korea’s sixth nuclear test. Xi made no direct reference
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has agreed to attend an international summit in Beijing early next month at the behest of his Chinese counterpart, according to the presidential office in Cairo.
