Brics - Economic co-operation group

I doubt it. These countries have nothing in common. Not economically, politically, geographically or demographically. There is no incentive for them to co-operate.

The term "BRICS" was only used to refer to up-and-coming economies in the early 2000s. Brazil and India made marginal gains since that time. Russia and South Africa are regressing economically. Only China has really grown and become a mostly first-world country.

I think part of the point is that they dont intend to lecture each other, its just an organisation to assist trade and development. If I remember correctly one element is that they arent supposed to sanction other members.

On the subject of Brics and China.

In a few months time we will have a general election.

For anyone thinking of voting for Clare Daly just please be aware that Clare is very much pro china ; pro brics and pro replacing the dollar as a world reserve currency.

She said so herself in a video where she praised 75 years of rule of the chinese communist party; just so people in her electoral area are aware of who and what Clare really is.

She looks like she just saw Mick Wallace pick his nose.

not just China, India is a dark horse here too , not that one country supplants the US by itself but the collective energy of the others shift the centre of gravity. It only took a 100 years or so for the british to peak and crack, now it looks like the US wont be able to project power like it used to within a generation meanwhile Europe ie us are in a downward curve too.

Some of the dissident groups in Pakistan might take a different view as just this week there was another targeted attack on chinese workers there in a line of attacks over the past year.

One of the issues I take with Clare and people like her is constant double standards for example Clare will constantly Critize the US and condemn Israel in the ongoing current conflict over the last year.

However Clare does not dare Condemn Russia,s action in the Ukraine in the same way she condemns Israel.

In that video Clare appeared in celebrating 75 years of the chinese communist party Clare omitted quite a bit.

Clare omitted the massacre in tiananmen square in 1989.

Clare omitted the Imprisonment of dissidents into re education camps.

Clare omitted forced organ harvesting of political prisoners.

Clare omits and fails to condemn the ongoing issue of organized snuff animal torture videos on chinese social media over the last year or two.

Because no laws exist in china to prevent such snuff torture when a society lacks such laws and no person faces any sort of punishment one can draw conclusions that it is an uncivilized society.

In short Clare Daly and people with her worldview America = bad and evil vs this view they seem to hold Russia China and others can never do any wrong; I draw that conclusion from her for what she omits and fails to condemn.

Here and the longer term I have a deep distrust of the ccp and their long end goals; while I do have my own critisms on US foreign policy in the overall end Id take a US led order over a chinese ccp led order any day .

The dream if BRICS, to become the next Vegas. And if a failed state like Cuba cN become a Vegas then what could other countries do? Wasn’t one of the reasons for the “paradise” revolution was that Havana was basically a Vegas for the rich.

Say hello to the new colonial boss, same as the old colonial boss.

How was Cuba forced into being a failed state? They had a revolution that rejected The evils of capitalism and went with socialism (although with Fidel’s brother taking over, could you call it a kind of monarchy), spoiler alert it didn’t work. I don’t think private enterprises want to set up in a communist country?

In the sweep of thing and even including the stupidity of Soviet communism it would be a hard sell not to have disdain for Western style solutions to things, from Vietnam on, the West can still be seen as taketh as much as it does givith