Brics can only provide credible leadership in a changing global order when it addresses its many inner contradictions.

Against the headwinds of a revisionist US, a shaky Western alliance and a global system in crisis, bold and decisive moves by ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping raised eyebrows when he decided to skip BRICS Summit 2025 in Brazil & instead sent Premier Li Qiang to represent China. There have been a lot of rumours doing the rounds ...

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At their latest summit in Brazil, the BRICS nations once again portrayed themselves as an emerging geopolitical heavyweight. Yet the internal contradictions within this expanding group remain plain to ...

In the absence of Putin and Xi, the summit was dominated by Brazil’s Lula and India’s Modi, the leaders of the two largest BRICS democracies – and the least interested in turning the grouping into an ...

Today, transformations unseen in a century are accelerating in the world. Geopolitical conflicts and economic and trade frictions keep emerging, flames of war continue to rage in some regions, ...

STRATEGIC SHIFT OR SILENT WARNING? CHINESE SYMBOLISM ON CONFIDENCE IN FULL PLAY M A Hossain In the realm of global politics, symbolism matters almost as much as substance. President Xi Jinping of ...

In a move that’s sent shockwaves through global politics, Chinese President Xi Jinping skipped the 17th BRICS Summit, his first absence since taking power in 2012. While Beijing claims it was due to ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s sudden and unexplained absence from the public eye between 21 May and 5 June has raised many ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Chairperson of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), Megawati Soekarnoputri, received a ...