The recently concluded BRICS Leaders’ Summit in Rio took place against the backdrop of great geopolitical flux. After years ...

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 ...

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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa, has praised China’s growing ...

ISLAMABAD: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to skip the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation ...

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 ...

Cities in countries involved in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization are accelerating efforts to use science and technology ...

Trump's renewed firmness on that deadline came after he posted a flurry of letters warning world leaders, threatening to ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...