{"id":216000,"date":"2022-07-04T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=216000"},"modified":"2022-07-01T09:29:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T08:29:31","slug":"key-takeaways-from-brics-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/07\/key-takeaways-from-brics-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Takeaways from BRICS Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/brics.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-216001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/brics-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/brics-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/brics-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/brics-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/brics.webp 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>29 Jun 2022 &#8211; <\/em>Last week the 14th BRICS Summit took place virtually, chaired by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The BRICS bloc (Brasil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) represents a key political, economic, and scientific force in the international arena. These nations represent half of the world\u2019s population and their collective GDP is greater that $20 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s context, the significance of the BRICS summit is increased to the extent that the bloc represents an alternative to the unipolar world of the decaying West.<\/p>\n<p>What follows are some of the key points from the Summit\u2019s\u00a0in Beijing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Multilateral compromise in the defense of international law, which includes being more inclusive with less developed countries.<\/li>\n<li>Promote peace and international security without compromising the environment.<\/li>\n<li>Support for a an open, multilateral, transparent, inclusive, rules-based, non-discriminatory commercial system.<\/li>\n<li>Cooperation to combat COVID-19, with support for multilateral organizations but also searching for medicinal alternatives.<\/li>\n<li>Support dialogue between Russia and Ukraine from an impartial perspective.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe strongly support a peaceful, safe, and stable Afghanistan while we emphasize our respect for its sovereignty independence, territorial integrity, national unity, and non-interference in its internal affairs.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The necessity to resolve the nuclear problem in Iran through peaceful and diplomatic means in accordance with international law.<\/li>\n<li>Support for bilateral and multilateral negotiations in order to solve the problems related to the Korean peninsula.<\/li>\n<li>Compromise for a world free of nuclear arms.<\/li>\n<li>Cooperation against terrorism and the reaffirmation of the exclusive authority of the UN Security Council.<\/li>\n<li>International cooperation against corruption.<\/li>\n<li>Compromise to continue bettering the coordination of macroeconomic policy, to further practical economic cooperation, and to work to achieve post-COVID-19 economic recovery in a sustainable, balanced, and inclusive manner.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe commit to strengthening intra-BRICS cooperation to intensify the BRICS Partnership on New Industrial Revolution (PartNIR) and collectively create new opportunities for development.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe encourage the BRICS Interbank Cooperation Mechanism to continue playing an important role in supporting BRICS economic and trade cooperation.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Opposition to green commercial barriers and support for coordination on this issue.<\/li>\n<li>Cooperation in agriculture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/key-takeaways-from-brics-summit\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; popularresistance.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 Jun 2022 &#8211; Last week the 14th BRICS Summit took place virtually, chaired by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The BRICS bloc (Brasil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) represents a key political, economic, and scientific force in the international arena. These nations represent half of the world\u2019s population and their collective GDP is greater that $20 trillion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":216001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[547,239,244,759,278,1218],"class_list":["post-216000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brics","tag-brazil","tag-brics","tag-china","tag-india","tag-russia","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}