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Made in China 2025 – Revisited
• March 12, 2025
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The Two Sessions, part of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, held last week at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, were a pretty serious deal. Not only because the sessions set the framework for Beijing to confront serious economic challenges ahead. But also because of the stellar performance by Foreign Minister Wang... Read More
From Donbass to South Lebanon, and All Across BRICS, It’s All About Resistance
• March 1, 2025
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For those who keep track of the slings and arrows crossing the broader geopolitical chessboard non-stop, it’s an immensely powerful – and humbling – experience to one day be contemplating the devastated Avdeyevka, in the heart of the war in Donbass, and a week later struggling to understand the devastation inflicted on villages in southern... Read More
Empire of Chaos, Reloaded
• January 10, 2025
• 2,400 Words • 37 Comments • Reply
All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Sun Tzu, The Art of War The... Read More
The Syria Tragedy and the New Omni-War
• December 6, 2024
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Until recently, a serious geopolitical working hypothesis was that West Asia and Ukraine were two vectors of the standard Hegemon modus operandi, which is to incite and unleash Forever Wars. Now both wars are united in an Omni-War. A coalition of Straussian neo-cons in the US, hardcore revisionist Zionists in Tel Aviv and Ukrainian neo-nazi... Read More
Putin Outlines the 'Moment of Truth'
• November 8, 2024
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President Putin’s plenary session performance (address + Q&A) at the annual Valdai Club meeting in Sochi felt like a high-speed train on cruise control. Totally cool, calm, comfortable, in full command of a Himalaya of facts, no political leader anywhere – recent past and present - would even come close to delivering what amounts to... Read More
BRICS Make History - Can They Keep the Momentum?
• October 28, 2024
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The not so simple twists of fate always allow certain cities to make their mark in History in ineffable ways. Yalta. Bretton Woods. Bandung – a 1955 de-colonization staple. And now Kazan. The BRICS summit in Kazan, capital of Tatarstan, under the Russian presidency was historic in more ways than one – followed with riveting... Read More
Date with Destiny - BRICS Offers Hope in a Time of War
• October 21, 2024
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This is it. A date with destiny. All set for the most crucial geopolitical/geoeconomic gathering of the year and arguably the decade: the BRICS Summit under the Russian presidency in Kazan, capital of Tatarstan, where Sunni Tatars coexist in perfect harmony with Orthodox Christians. All the excruciating work by sherpas and analysts throughout 2024 –... Read More
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Will a BRICS Bretton Woods Take Place in Kazan?
• September 23, 2024
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With less than a month before the crucial BRICS annual summit in Kazan under the Russian presidency, serious informed discussions are raging in Moscow and other Eurasian capitals on what should be at the table in the de-dollarization and alternative payment system front. Earlier this month Andrey Mikhailishin, head of the task force on financial... Read More
Russia, China, ASEAN Weave Their Eastern Magic
• September 9, 2024
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Something quite extraordinary happened at the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok last week – very much in tune with the forum’s main theme: “Far Eastern 2030. Combining Strengths to Create New Potential.” The stage was shared by President Putin; Vice-President of China Han Zheng; and Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim.... Read More
BRICS+ Cities Unite in Kazan, Ushering in New Era of Cooperation
• June 25, 2024
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The idea, by Kazan mayor Ilsur Metshin, was as simple as quite revolutionary. Why not profit from the year of the Russian presidency of BRICS – with the first BRICS + summit taking place in Kazan next October – to come up with a new association uniting BRICS+ cities? Mayor Metshin is a big fan... Read More
The Three Key Messages from St. Petersburg to the Global Majority
• June 10, 2024
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In the year of the Russian presidency of BRICS, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) had to deliver something special. And deliver it did: over 21,000 people representing no less than 139 nations – a true microcosm of the Global Majority, discussing every facet of the drive towards a multipolar, multinodal (italics mine), polycentric... Read More
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The Coming of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem
• May 13, 2024
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Get ready for what may well be the geoeconomic bombshell of 2024: the coming of a decentralized monetary ecosystem. Welcome to The Unit – a concept that has already been discussed by the financial services and investments working group set up by the BRICS+ Business Council and has a serious shot at becoming official BRICS+... Read More
Kill List: Smashing the ‘B’ in BRICS. “Neoliberalism or Chaos” in Brazil
• June 15, 2016
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The stakes could not be higher. Not only the future of the BRICS, but the future of a new multipolar world is in the balance. And it all hinges on what happens in Brazil in the next few months. Let’s start with the Kafkaesque internal turmoil. The coup against President Dilma Rousseff remains an unrivalled... Read More
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