Wednesday, November 20, 2024

"BRICS: It All Comes Together" by Godfree Roberts

 

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Source: Here Comes China


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The West’s longstanding hostility to international development¹ has reduced the United Nations to near-impotence, but BRICS is another matter entirely. Driven by rich, powerful Russia and China, with generations of pro-development experience, its transformational intentions are clear. Short of war, it will be difficult to thwart. After all, Russia is again beating the combined West on the battlefield as its economy goes from strength to strength.

Recall, too, that China has accumulated $3 trillion-$5 trillion toxic dollars, to which will add $1 trillion this year, much of which can be profitably employed in developing countries. BRICS’ mBridge settlement platform has already attracted Western hostility–as the withdrawal of the Bank for International Settlements demonstrates. Expect more of the same from an increasingly impotent West.

Unlike the cap-in-hand United Nations, BRICS will lack neither money, will, nor expertise to invest in agencies and projects listed in 2024 Kazan Declaration, below, where the outlines of the new world order are visible:

  • Items #3-#6 will become a truly effective BRICS security council.

  • #7-#14 foreshadow the international reserve currency called for by the PBOC in 2009².

  • Items #18-#20 have already incarnated as the Global Energy Interconnect, GEIDCO, with $15 trillion already invested in connecting national grids to move energy around the globe with the sun, wind, and tides. This massive development has received no Western coverage.

  • Items #21–#24 will green all that energy.

  • Items #27–#33 will replace the politicized WHO.

  • Items #42–#49 will truly internationalize eduction.

Let your imagination run free as you scan the list:

  1. BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs and International Relations (met 10 June)

  2. BRICS Central Bank Governors and Finance Ministers

  3. BRICS National Security Advisors and High Representatives (met 10-11). Will probably merge with SCO.

  4. BRICS Deputy Foreign Ministers and Special Envoys (met 25 April)

  5. BRICS Counter-Terrorism Working Group and CTWG Position Paper. SCO, ditto.

  6. BRICS Anti-Drug Working Group (met 22 May)

  7. New Development Bank–investment platform to boost BRICS FDI

  8. BRICS Interbank Cooperation Mechanism (mBridge)

  9. BRICS Economic Partnership for 2025 Strategy.

  10. BRICS Cross-Border Payments Initiative (mBridge)

  11. BRICS Payments Task Force. (mBridge)

  12. BRICS Clear feasibility study (International Central Securities Depository)

  13. BRICS (Re)Insurance Company

  14. BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement

  15. BRICS Economic Bulletin

  16. BRICS Rapid Information Security Channel for financial cyber resilience

  17. BRICS Institute of AI Future Networks Study Group

  18. BRICS Energy Research Cooperation Platform.

  19. BRICS Just Energy Transition Report

  20. BRICS Youth Energy Summit (met 27-28 September)

  21. BRICS Carbon Markets Partnership

  22. BRICS Contact Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Development (Ministers met 28 June).

  23. BRICS Geological Platform.

  24. BRICS Environmentally Sound Technology Platform

  25. BRICS Cooperation Platform on Kimberly Process diamond certification

  26. BRICS Transport Ministers (met 6 June 2024)

  27. BRICS R&D Vaccine Center

  28. BRICS TB Research Network

  29. BRICS Conference on Antimicrobial Resistence

  30. BRICS Nuclear Medicine Forum (met 20-21 June 2024) and publication of BRICS Review of Best Practices in Nuclear Medicine

  31. BRICS Health Journal

  32. BRICS Medical Association

  33. BRICS Public Health Institute Network

  34. BRICS Heads of Space Agencies

  35. BRICS Tourism Forum (met 20-21 June 2024)

  36. BRICS International Competition Law and Policy Center (conference in 2025)

  37. BRICS Customs Administrations Joint Action Plan

  38. BRICS Customs Training Centers of Excellence

  39. BRICS Heads of Tax Authorities Governance Framework

  40. BRICS Joint Statistical Publications.

  41. BRICS Intellectual Property Offices

  42. BRICS Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) for funding collaborative research

  43. BRICS University Network

  44. BRICS Technical and Vocational Education and Training

  45. BRICS Digital Education Cooperation Mechanism

  46. BRICS Ministers of Education

  47. BRICS Geographer’s Day for geographical and geospatial sciences research

  48. Global Education Meeting (in Brazil, 2025)

  49. BRICS Academic Forum

  50. BRICS Business Council

  51. BRICS New Technology Platform

  52. BRICS Solutions Award

  53. BRICS Youth Summit

  54. BRICS Youth Council

  55. BRICS Parliamentary Forum (met 11-12 July 2024)

  56. BRICS Political Parties Dialogue (met June 2024)

  57. BRICS Urbanisation Forum

  58. BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Governments Cooperation Forum

  59. BRICS Municipal Forum

  60. BRICS Business Forum

  61. BRICS Women’s Business Alliance Digital Platform

  62. BRICS Women’s Entrepreneurship Forum (met 3-4 June 2024)

  63. BRICS Women’s Startups Contest

  64. BRICS Civil Forum

  65. BRICS Think Tank Council and Network for Finance

  66. Civil BRICS Council

Says central banker Kathleen Tyson, “BRICS has had huge institutional development under the Russian chairmanship, and all the cooperation has been moved to these new BRICS cooperation and exchange platforms”. As the West sinks under the weight of its accumulated debt and international opprobrium, enjoy the emergence of an entirely new approach to the problems it has caused. And about damn time!

1

The Ukraine War was launched to prevent Russia’s further post Cold War recovery. Israel, a Western project, has has prevented or destroyed development in its region for generations, as has the USA in Latin America and lesser pests like Australia in SE Asia and the Pacific.

2

In 2009, after the GFC, PBOC Governor Zhou Xiaochuan announced, "The world needs an international reserve currency that is disconnected from individual nations and able to remain stable in the long run, removing the inherent deficiencies caused by using credit-based national currencies. He proposed Special Drawing Rights, SDRs valued against a basket of trading currencies and commodities like gold and wheat. Nobelists C. Fred Bergsten, Robert Mundell, and Joseph Stieglitz agreed: “The creation of a global currency would restore a needed coherence to the international monetary system, give the IMF a function that would help it to promote stability and be a catalyst for international harmony”.

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