Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has welcomed improved ties with China as U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent escalated criticism of the South Asian nation over 'excess profits' from purchases of Russian oil. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/asia-pacific/politics/modi-china-bessent-india-families/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #wangyi #china #narendramodi #india #us #scottbessent #brics #mukeshambani #russia #oil
India and China are restoring economic links strained by a deadly 2020 border clash in the latest sign Prime Minister Narendra Modi is drawing closer to BRICS. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/13/asia-pacific/politics/india-china-brics-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #india #china #brics #narendramodi #us #donaldtrump
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spoke with his Chinese counterpart following talks with the leaders of India and Russia as part of his outreach after the nation became a target of the U.S. trade war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/12/world/politics/lula-xi-modi-putin-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #brazil #luizinacioluladasilva #china #xijinping #india #narendramodi #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #us #donaldtrump #g20 #brics
Droits de douane: Donald Trump veut casser les Brics
Au-delà de la question pétrolière, les 50% de #DroitsDeDouane imposés à l’#Inde ne sont que la dernière manifestation de la stratégie de Donald Trump: casser les #Brics et l’émergence de la puissance des pays du Sud, afin de préserver l’hégémonie états-unienne et celle du #dollar.
Par @Morange › https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/090825/droits-de-douane-donald-trump-veut-casser-les-brics?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapart
The White House’s tariff blitz assumes America’s consumer market is irreplaceable, but what happens when that market sputters? Spoiler: The "indispensable economy" is looking mighty fragile.
https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/the-pyrrhic-tariff-war
https://social.museus.gov.br
I think it's the first time I spot a .gov.br Mastodon instance! 🥹
🔴 The World is Shifting
US outspends everyone on war (74% of global military budget) while Global South rises. China now leads 57/64 key technologies—US only 7.
BRICS+ and South-South trade surge as nations ditch dollar dominance. From Burkina Faso’s anti-French coups to Latin America’s left wave, nations are shaking off western dominance.
https://thetricontinental.org/dossier-tricontinental-anniversary-global-south-sovereignty/
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses the militarism of the declining Western hegemony and the rise of BRICS to accommodate multipolar realities.
For the second time this year, the world’s most powerful finance ministers gather in South Africa without the presence of the U.S. Treasury secretary. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/14/economy/g20-bessent-south-africa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #scottbessent #g20 #southafrica #us #donaldtrump #republicans #brics
Brazil is responding the old-fashioned, counterproductive way by matching Trump's tariffs in the other direction. A FAR better response: Adopt Cory Doctorow suggestion to make Brazil a tech jailbreak haven, helping tech users and putting a big dent in the the tech monopolists' power.
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@dangillmor
Big Tech is in bed with #BRICS. It's why blue-chip tech is so willing to push foreword with all the user antagonistic features they have in the past two years. It's why they so blithely dismiss rule of law respecting places like the EU and Canada.
Blue chip tech companies are not worried about Brazil cutting into their profits because the've already brokered the terms of engagement between their respective syndicates. It's a textbook case of #rackiteering
New Delhi has found itself in a tough position following U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose new tariffs on India over its participation in the BRICS forum. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/10/trump-brics-india-trade-deal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #india #narendramodi #brics
BRICS+: empowering development.
It is time to lay firm, interconnected and enduring bricks that will advance development and shared prosperity for the Global South.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/08/brics-empowering-development/
With U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs upending global commerce, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is looking for ways to deepen trade ties with India. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/09/world/politics/brazil-lula-modi-india-trade-partner/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #brazil #luizinacioluladasilva #india #narendramodi #brics #trade
Trump alleged the BRICS group is working to weaken the US dollar.
Read more: https://t.co/qLOOKUulpo
@unusual_whales
Hahaha. Ahahaha!
Maybe so but you're doing a fine job all on your own, Trump. You astounding cretin.
With the U.S. withdrawing from international organizations and alienating other countries with tariffs, the 10-nation BRICS grouping has been gradually stepping in to fill a growing soft-power vacuum, analysts say. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/08/world/politics/brics-soft-power-trump-analysis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #brics #g7 #us #donaldtrump #healthcare #ai #diseases
Ahead of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's first Asia trip this week, to attend meetings of Southeast Asian Nations in Malaysia, U.S. President Donald Trump slammed tariffs on the hosts and allies in the region. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/08/asia-pacific/politics/rubio-asean-trump-tariffs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #marcorubio #malaysia #asean #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #brics
Leaders of the BRICS group of developing nations on Sunday condemned attacks on Gaza and Iran, called for reforms of global institutions and presented the bloc as a haven for multilateral diplomacy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/07/world/politics/brics-global-reform/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #brics #us #trade #gaza #israelhamaswar #iran #israel #tariffs #donaldtrump #brazil
Russia and Iran were relegated to the periphery of a BRICS summit in Brazil. But even as the meeting got off to an awkward start, it was clear that the grouping is already challenging the U.S.-led order. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/07/world/politics/russia-iran-brics-guests/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #brics #brazil #russia #iran #us #donaldtrump
BRICS leaders meeting in Brazil are expected to decry U.S. trade tariffs, saying they are illegal and risk hurting the global economy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/06/economy/brics-trump-tariffs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #brics #us #trade #globaleconomy #donaldtrump #tariffs
Until recently, the accepted wisdom in Mexico was that Mexico’s economy is simply too integrated with the US and Canada’s and too dependent on the US for it to be able to join the BRICS.
Fast forward to today, and President Sheinbaum has just announced that her government will be participating as an observer in the 17th annual meeting of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro on July 6-7.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/this-time-its-true-mexico-is-going-to-the-brics-summit.html