The forthcoming BRICS summit in Xiamen is due to be the most ambitious BRICS summit to-date. Among the wide reaching goals of the summit is an intention to work towards a customs union and the eventual establishment of fully-fledged free trading zone between the BRICS and their partners.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Astana along with the leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in a ceremony and conference welcoming India and Pakistan to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
Putin spoke of the need for further cooperation on all matters of mutual interest ranging from trade to anti-terrorism measures. Putin’s speech which emphasised the need for unity between Asia and Eurasia and spoke of using the SCO as a means to help and better coordinate China’s One Belt–One Road trade project.
The 21st century has witnessed what many would call a sharp decline in the strength and stability in governments promoting Arab nationalism. Whether Ba’athism, Nasserism or Libya’s unique Third International Theory, many of the regimes that were once bulwarks of the various ideologies of Pan-Arabism have either been destroyed or severely compromised.
Michael McFaul, the Washington Post and all others who declared Brexit to be a Putin’s victory, still don’t understand that Putin has won long before June 23rd referendum. The fact
Putin has been very cautious in his responses to NATO aggression in both the Ukraine and Syria. The Turkish economy has already been severely damaged since that Russian SU-24 jet was shot down. The Turkish bond and stock markets are collapsing. Tourism and other industries have taken as much of a blow as Russia would care to administer at this time. In keeping with Putin’s less bellicose responses and his long range goal of dethroning the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, I would offer the following suggestions:
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