They just gonna start saying the leaders of BRICS+ countires are dictators and doesn't represent their people/populations.
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Well, if we go by every single election that has occurred this year so far… closer ties.
Perhaps a little less aggressive, as in not poking the Panda in the belly on a weekly basis, but no major deviation from current policy, otherwise the US will engineer another internal party power struggle and replace him with someone more obedient.
Citizens of Australia, and for that matter Japan and a few other countries, should ask themselves the question :
If the US will not get militarily involved in China-Taiwan reunification, will Australia still do ?
The answer can be revealing how firmly they stand on their PRINCIPLE and how hypocritical their politicians are.
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Yeah ofc, but every move they make is countered with such aplomb. BRICS+ contains the worlds largest democracies, I’m talking about true democracies not false, or partial ones, like the US.
While the US can’t even get Korea and Japan to talk, China builds consensus with the majority of the world. We are not finished yet, because we have some big news about the GCC, Latin American and Caribbean countries still to come. At which point it will be the West that will be isolated !
As usual, the US will probably resort to regime change as their main counter, but this doesn’t seem to be effective anymore.
It is less important to count what percentage of the world population the expanded BRICS+ represents. Rather, we should be looking at the real economic power of the new BRICS+. For example,
- How much of the world energy resources BRICS+ will control when Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kazakhstan join.
- How much the world food resources BRICS+ will control when Argentina and Kazakhstan join.
Yeah, but in a democratic world nothing beats having a majority of people.
You could also say how many maritime choke points will be controlled once Egypt, Saudi, UAE, Indonesia and Thailand join. Or how many maritime trade routes, or SLOCs will need more security patrols, surely the South Atlantic and Gulf of Guinea will see more Chinese presence (there is already a frigate on patrol).
All places that the West does NOT want to be having to concern themselves with right now, kind of like the South Pacific.
American diplomats are sure living in interesting times.
At some point, China, perhaps together with Russia in some cases, should offer security guarantee to some of the developing countries selectively. China is not ready yet--we're talking about something a good decade and half away. It sounds still far in the future, but it is not. The US is in decline, and is trying to mobilize its vassals and clients to form an anti-China & anti-Russia block and continues its hegemony and bullying over vast majority of the countries in the world. China needs to step up the leadership and takes counter-measures. The world needs an alternative to the US and its vassals.
BRICS+ is a good starting point; it can form the economic and political foundation. Over time, it can move into security relationships.
The G7 has less population than even China or India, and yet they as a grouping essentially "controls" the world, even though that is eroding.
As the Russia-Ukraine conflict taught us, it is not that easy to take down a country that has significant energy and food resources, even though her GDP is quite small. This is the new reality of world economics - energy and food are the real currencies. BRICS should seize the opportunity to give the global south a much stronger representation and control over its own destiny.
I am not denying Russia's military power, both conventional and nuclear, is not important in Russia being able to determine her own destiny. But without her energy and food power, Russia will collapse under the US-EU sponsored sanctions.
Fully agree with @weig2000 BRICS+ should be an economy partnership first, political second, and military alliance last.
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The problem with BRIC + is there are overwhelmingly more Anti-China Ja Hind types brainwashing their own people for decades than there are Anti-Indian Chinese.