BRICS summit was an opportunity for China to present its accommodating side, but Xi Jinping pushed his rhetoric on countering the ‘Western-led international order’.
The 14th BRICS Summit was held virtually Thursday. This was Putin's first forum with the heads of major economies since launching the Ukraine invasion.
The BRICS summit is being hosted by China in a virtual format on 23-24 June. Xi will set the tone for the summit with a speech on Wednesday, a day before the leaders are set to gather.
Modi will virtually meet BRICS leaders this week, rub shoulders with Western leaders next. India is adjusting its foreign policy to keep pace with the ways of the world.
In ‘The Harambee Factor’, former Indian ambassador to African Union Gurjit Singh talks about how under Modi ministry, Africa has been receiving a lot of economic support.
Focus of the BRICS Summit, apart from Covid cooperation, will be the new Taliban caretaker govt in Afghanistan, and channelising development aid there.
India has outlined multilateral system, counter-terrorism, use of digital tools for achieving SDGs and enhancing people-to-people exchanges as priority areas for its chairship.
Vaccine manufacturers China and Russia never came forward to share the formula with or waive IPR for other BRICS members. So much for the cooperation in the Covid fight.
Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.
Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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