Good idea, bad timing?
It's not clear whether the world's worst drought in over a century provided impetus for the agriculture ministers of the BRICS nations to gather in Brasilia in March and launch a manifesto designed to make the group a key player in the global food security regime. But they did. Now the world is waiting.
From a moral and business ethics perspective the effort makes sense ...
... actually starts this calendar year, it could be operational in 2021.
If that happens it will exacerbate tensions among the BRICS and the major iron ore and steel powers. This means the United States, Japan, South Korea and the European Union will be ... ... to further their own agendas connected with overall logistics and the politics of mediating or turning a blind eye to global extremism.
The essay posted here represents the personal views of this blogger on the current status of the globalization of ...