... aggravate the threat already posed by the expanding movement.
The Beijing meeting of Russian, Chinese and Indian foreign ministers once again proved the need for a variety of non-antagonistic approaches to global interaction. Russia and China supported India’s aspirations to join APEC, and BRICS definitely retains its role alongside the Russia-China-India trilateral format. Both Russia and China would also like to see India become a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
The next ministerial meeting will be held in Russia ...
The Glacier of Discord
The development of the political dialogue between China and India has been impeded by the frozen border conflict that could escalate into a major clash. But we should not exaggerate the threat of military confrontation between Beijing and Delhi, since their strategic interests are so far in sync.
This year India ...
... issue its expenses has been increased rapidly. China is trying to establish its self as a great power. It often involves in shadow border conflict with India. China's goal to be a super power and exercise hegemony over the globe may create obstacles for BRICS. India is also trying to survive with China. I think the first condition of a successful international organization in mutual understanding among the members. BRICS is not quite ideal in this context.
Arun Mohanty
Arun Mohanty: The decision to create ...
... that the Islamic population in Brazil is 204,000. But the website of the leading Islamic organization in Brazil claims that number should be 2 million. That figure is more than the 1.4 million Emirati citizens who occupy the United Arab Emirates.
India, with the largest Islamic population among the BRICS, shares porous borders with Islamic Pakistan (178 million) and Bangladesh (158 million), and beyond the headlines the relations between those nations are, and will continue to be problematic.
The high end figure of $200 billion associated with ...
... the government of president Vladimir Putin and has the hubris to remove South Africa from the BRICS grouping altogether. Does that sound political to you? Should the BRICS issue a response? Did South Africa leave the group?
Grouping Brazil, Russia, India and China together, the study claims that “excluding China, they (the BRICs) exhibit the highest degree of trust in business as institution (Brazil 70 percent, Russia 45 percent and India 79 percent).”
China is excluded because the gap in the difference of how much Chinese trust or mistrust government is only one ...
... Foreign Minister
Antonio Patriota stressed
that the prevailing global trend rests on enforcement, the expansion of sanctions and hasty military intervention, whereas it is preventive diplomacy and peacekeeping operations that must become the key tools.
BRICS Countries in Peacemaking
India indisputably outnumbers its BRICS partners and is followed by Brazil, with South Africa and China trailing behind. Russia is the unquestionable underachiever, with the numbers of its military and police in the UN missions on a clear downward spiral....
