... economic ties between Pakistan and China. Russia's potential involvement in the BRI can extend these benefits to a broader regional context, linking Eurasia through infrastructure, trade and energy projects that span from Moscow to Islamabad.
Moreover, the BRICS grouping, which brings together Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Ethiopia, Iran, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, offers another avenue for Russia–Pakistan cooperation. While India is a member of BRICS, Russia and Pakistan can still find common ground within this framework to address global ...
... Americans are also seeking to cultivate India, as a pivotal great power, within the Quad group. All these multiple arrangements are completely dominated by the US and are aimed at containing and deterring Washington’s designated primary adversaries: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea – with one overriding goal of defending America’s hegemonic position.
In contrast to that, neither BRICS nor the SCO is dominated by a single power, or a tandem/triumvirate of nations. BRICS’s recent expansion also suggests that it does not aspire to become a version of the West’s G7, as an elitist steering group, or directoire, for the non-Western ...
... nonregional powers to play more prominent roles in and around Eurasia.
Andrey Kortunov:
Unpacking GCI: China’s Strategic Vision Comes of Age
Can Moscow make a meaningful contribution to an improvement in China-India relations? The trilateral Russia-India-China (RIC) format has existed for more than 20 years, but it has been gradually overshadowed by BRICS and the SCO. However, maybe the time has come to put more emphasis on RIC.
For instance, Moscow could offer Beijing and New Delhi joint trilateral development, transportation and research projects in the Russian sector of the Arctic region. Trilateral ...
... R&D projects and in transborder interactions. Personally, I would like Putin and Xi to make a breakthrough on moving to the non-visa regime between the two neighboring countries. It is hard to understand why, given the excellent state of the Russia-China relations, many of us on both sides of the border still have to stand in long lines waiting for single-entry visas to be stamped in our passports.
Dmitriy Kiku:
Positions of BRICS Nations on UN Security Council Reform
A lot of Putin-Xi conversations will take place behind closed doors, which is only natural under the current challenging geopolitical circumstances. However, the two leaders can release a political statement ...
... catalyzed an active search by most members of the international community for mechanisms of interaction that would be resistant to Western sabotage.
The BRICS experience in this sense is very illustrative. Russia’s trade and economic interaction with BRICS partners has only grown since the large-scale and unprecedented restrictions were imposed on our country. We are reaching record trade levels with Brazil, India and China.
There has been a steady development of the whole range of cooperation in three key areas: politics and security, economy and finance, and humanitarian contacts. The recent examples of practical achievements in BRICS include the launch of the BRICS ...
... rational reforms, to restore its authority, to enhance its effectiveness and to regain its central role in international affairs.
China and Russia, either as a member of the global South or as its partner, should work together with the Global South in the ... ... but it is possible to form a grid-like form of cooperation that is multilevel, multidisciplinary and multiformat.
The SCO and BRICS are originally platforms for political, economic, security and humanistic cooperation among their participants, but as they ...
... that the option of granting of permanent membership to Japan and Germany is essentially excluded. Another peculiar feature of China’s position is the aspiration for the so-called “
package solution
,” i.e. for transformations with the maximum backing ... ... and this cannot but alarm Beijing.
To summarize everything stated above, it is highly probable that the Russian presidency in BRICS will involve the challenge of bringing together the positions of both the “old-timers” and the new members on the UN ...
... such a currency could be the Chinese yuan, given the size of the Chinese economy. However, the big question is how politically acceptable this will be, for example, for India. That is, it is too early to talk about an analogue of the American dollar in BRICS in the form of the currency of one of the member countries? The question is whether China itself is ready to internationalize the yuan to the extent that the US dollar has today.
Evelina Fokina:
Institutionalization of BRICS: From Literature Review to Making Reality
The fourth problem is the unbalanced and fragmented balance of payments ...
... ahead, plan ahead, and then put their critical resources to that will succeed. As for what to invest in, this will keep on changing. Nothing is going to be permanent.
How does India perceive the world fragmentizing into two techno-economic blocks (with China on the one hand and the US and West on the other)? Does India have any strategy to navigate its interests in these new circumstances?
Aleksei Kuznetsov:
BRICS in Global Financial System: The Need to Level the Playing Field
Absolutely. First off, there will not be any sole winner — it is not going to be the US, and it is not going to be China. Whatever technology China has, it will be put to the best ...
RIAC, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of International Studies at Fudan University Report #87 / 2023
RIAC, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of International ...
