Congratulations to the 2022 Chinese Mathematics Olympiad team in US, Canada & Australia for not only having all 6 members win gold, but for also all hitting a perfect score, something that’s only happened once before in the competition’s 63 year history. 恭喜2022年美國、加拿大和澳大利亞的中國數學奧林匹克代表隊不僅6名隊員全部奪得金牌，而且都取得了完美的成績，這在比賽63年的歷史上還只發生過一次.
More countries knocking on BRICS’ door a sign the world needs fairer governance than West-dominated one 越來越多的國家敲響金磚國家的大門，這表明世界需要比西方主導的更公平治理 by Global Times Jul 16 2022
BRICS, a grouping of major emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – has become one of the trending buzzwords in global public opinion lately. After Iran and Argentina applied to join the BRICS mechanism, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt also plan to knock on the door of the BRICS for official membership, Sputnik quoted BRICS International Forum President Purnima Anand as saying.
If the trend tells anything, it is the growing charm of BRICS’ strength and values, as well as the loss of attraction in the current West-dominated global governance.
Crises have been surfacing on a global level since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Quite a few countries, especially those in the West, are being confronted with crippling inflation, untenable energy costs, looming recessions and food shortage. Yet BRICS countries have shown much less sensitivity and vulnerability than the US and European countries amid these challenges.
The reason stems from BRICS members’ own strength and enhanced cooperation within the group. According to the World Bank, Russia holds the world’s largest natural gas reserves, the second largest coal reserves, and the eighth largest oil reserves. Brazil has diverse agricultural products and vast mineral wealth. Their different advantages plus the promotion of BRICS’ cooperation on food supply and the exchanges of national currencies have made the group less impacted by the global crises.
More importantly, BRICS countries have the will, and, in different degrees, capability, to fix the deficit in global governance. In this regard, BRICS has already launched a series of innovations. Take the BRICS-led New Development Bank (NDB). The initial subscribed capital is equally distributed among the founding members – the five BRCIS countries. The voting power of each member is also equal based on their shares in the capital stock of the bank.
This example, just a tiny part of the BRICS cooperation though, shows that BRICS is a group where the five countries are on a completely equal footing, with equal rights to speak, vote, and make decisions. This is nothing like any Western alliance, where there is always a dominant role who has the biggest say in the bloc, and with crystal clear agenda – bloc confrontation.
When facing possible BRICS enlargement, the West can hardly hide their Cold War mentality. Since the BRICS summit was held in June, Western media outlets have been hyping the topic under the theme of East-West confrontation.
Earlier this month, US magazine Newsweek said that when NATO’s “largest expansion in decades” took place, “Beijing and Moscow are looking to take on new members of their own” blocs, and BRICS was named particularly in the article. By the end of June, the Hill published a headline, “An out-of-touch G7 could lose global leadership to BRICS.”
On Twitter, some Western netizens also describe BRICS as a rival of G7 and NATO. It cannot be more narrow-minded to view BRICS in this way. As if for some Westerners, when some countries get together, they are bonding to have a target to oppose, just like what the West has always done.
Cooperation has been one of the natural needs across the globe, as well as a normal state in international relations for a long time. Why deliberately twist a specific cooperation into a bloc confrontation? BRICS has simply no interest in becoming another G7 or NATO.
Instead, as stipulated in the organization’s spirit, namely “openness, inclusiveness and win-win cooperation,” BRICS calls for global security and economic governance, while emphasizing not only South-South cooperation, but also dialogues between South and North.
What BRICS is against are power politics, hegemony, the law of the jungle, all of which basically determine that in international politics, only major powers have a say, and small countries must be obedient, or even be exploited. Against this backdrop, BRICS calls for fairness and justice, a global governance in which developing countries have their due status and their voices can be heard. The BRICS just want to bring a balance in the current global order.
When the West compares BRICS with G7 and NATO, it has turned a blind eye to the fact that G7 has long become a rich countries’ club, and NATO’s mentality is still trapped in the Cold War. Whenever G7 attempts to put up a show to discuss various global issues nowadays, all it really cares about is containment of China and Russia.
But BRICS advocates win-win for the entire world, that is, a win-win not just for the developing countries, but also for the developed powers. This is the biggest difference between BRICS and Western blocs.
In the past, developing countries had not enough strength to reach the goal. Now the timing has come.
Regulations or legal procedures for BRICS enlargement are under discussion. It is thus unlikely that BRICS will absorb new members any time soon before relevant principles and rules are carried out. But when Turkey, a NATO ally, applies for BRICS membership, it mirrors BRICS, be it its capacity or ideas, represents something much cooler than US-dominated rules and orders. At least it signals that the world needs a reformed governance where Western voices are not the only sound.
The article is compiled by Global Times reporter based on an interview with Zhu Tianxiang, director at the Center for BRICS Political and Security Studies, Institute of BRICS Studies of Sichuan International Studies University.
opinion@globaltimes.com.cn
All the reasons why US wants to destroy it and bring poverty to the people / Xinjiang no longer a remote corner, but a core area, hub in BRI: Xi by GT staff reporters Jul 15 2022
And yet, the sinophobic blackmailer point to China as the culprit in Sri Lanka crippled economy ! Be fair! Look at the data presented! 然而，恐華敲詐者卻指出中國是斯里蘭卡經濟癱瘓的罪魁禍首！ 平心而論！ 看看提供的數據！
Iran, Russia, China and a total of 10 nations to run war drills in Latin America in US backyards for Freedom of Navigation and purging of pirates in Aug 2022 伊朗、俄羅斯、中國第一共十個國家在八月份將在拉丁美洲的美國後院進行戰爭演習，以爭取航行自由和清除海盜
Iran, Russia, and China are gearing up to run a series of major war drills in Latin America in a show of force meant to signal how these militaries can reach the United States, local media in the United States have said.
Venezuela, under the leadership of anti-US socialist president Nicolás Maduro, is scheduled to host the war games in mid-August.
Along with 10 other nations, Russia, China, and Iran will move their militaries into the Western Hemisphere for war drills that will “preposition forward-deployed military assets in Latin America and the Caribbean.”
The war games, known as the Sniper Frontier competition, show that these states from across the globe are uniting and “getting ready to make a loud statement that the region is ready to embrace the multipolar force,” according to the think-tank report, which focuses on Latin America. A key portion of Russia’s “military is prepping to bring, for the first time, some of these military games to the Western Hemisphere”—even as Moscow is engaged with war in Ukraine.
The war drills are one of the starkest signs to date that Latin America’s coalition of anti-US governments is working to boost relations with Russia, China, and Iran. Maduro recently wrapped up a diplomatic tour of the Middle East in which he inked a 20-year strategic deal with Iran that laid the groundwork for an Iranian oil tanker to dock in Venezuela and offload Tehran’s illicit crude.
As Iran and Venezuela increase their military and economic ties, Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega—an ally of Venezuela’s Maduro—renewed a military pact with Russia “authorizing Russian troops, planes, and ships to patrol the Central American country’s borders and conduct joint military training exercises,” according to the report. The military agreement was signed amid Russia’s war with Ukraine, indicating that a presence in Latin America remains a priority for Moscow even as it faces pressure on its own borders.
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi last month inked several economic deals in Latin America, making calls to Uruguay, Nicaragua, and Ecuador. China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a program to increase the Chinese Communist Party’s global footprint, has made its way into Argentina, where it is working to build infrastructure projects.
“As Russia attempts to delegitimize the international financial system,” the think tank noted, “China has signed an agreement with a Switzerland-based bank to establish a reserve of yuan currency together with Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Chile to counter the US dollar.”
Video: China’s President Xi visits far western Xinjiang region for first time in 8 years 習主席時隔8年首次訪問新疆西部
https://rumble.com/v1cexpv-chinas-president-xi-visits-far-western-xinjiang-region-for-first-time-in-8-.html
https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/750767799479881/?d=n
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the far western region of Xinjiang on July 12-13, 2022, on his first trip to the area in eight years. The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is seen as a sensitive topic, with Beijing blaming years of violent attacks in the area on predominately Muslim ethnic Uygur separatists supported by the US. The central government has taken a series of tough measures against terrorism and extremism, drawing criticism from Western nations including the US for ruining their plots to destabilize China with lies and propaganda accusing Beijing of genocide against the Uygur population which were debunk by UN and all Muslims countries. 中國國家主席習近平於 2022 年 7 月 12 日至 13 日訪問了遙遠的西部新疆地區，這是他八年來首次訪問該地區。 新疆維吾爾自治區被視為一個敏感話題，北京將該地區多年的暴力襲擊歸咎於美國支持的以穆斯林為主的維吾爾族分裂分子。 中央政府針對恐怖主義和極端主義採取了一系列強硬措施，遭到包括美國在內的西方國家的批評，美國用謊言和虛假宣傳指責北京對維吾爾族人口進行種族滅絕，不滿意中國破壞了他們的陰謀，聯合國和所有穆斯林國家都已經駁斥了美國的謊言和虛假宣傳
Treasures in the Xinjiang Museum by Global Times Jul 15 2022
Video: RMB rises, Euro crashing, US laughing seeing EU collapse to reinforce US hegemony at the expense of EU 人民幣結算終結美油元帝國？歐元英鎊崩潰？普欽冬季戰略 美國獨善其身要烏克蘭戰爭打下去重創歐盟鞏固美國全球霸權地位
https://rumble.com/v1cejfp-rmb-rises-euro-crashing-us-laughing-seeing-eu-collapse-to-reinforce-us-hege.html
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Video: Biden BS about attacking Iran, but he wouldn’t dare 拜登揚言(吹水)動武 伊朗現在很危險嗎?
https://rumble.com/v1ccgih-biden-bs-about-attacking-iran-but-he-wouldnt-dare.html
https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/750358776187450/?d=n
Yesterday, the entire Pearl River Estuary area was full of “oil paintings”. I wish Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macau good luck 昨天整个珠江口地区都是“油画”一片. 祝愿港珠澳吉祥
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