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Xi-Modi Talks in Joburg Sparks New Optimism About Improving Ties With India
Reactions in China to last week's brief conversation between President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi were far more upbeat than those in India. To be sure, there was nowhere near as much commentary about the meeting in the ...
Modi Subtly Blames China for the Global South Debt Crisis
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi re-surfaced longstanding suspicions that China is fueling the Global South debt crisis by engaging in predatory lending. In an interview with India Today published on Friday, the Prime Minister insinuated that unnamed "forces" are ensnaring ...
Xi Holds Bilateral Meetings on the Sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg
Chinese President Xi Jinping held a flurry of sideline meetings with various Global South leaders Wednesday on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg: ETHIOPIA: Xi informed PM Abiy Ahmed that China would suspend payments on all ...
It’s Business as Usual for Xi and Modi, No Indication if the Two Plan to Meet in South Africa
All week, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have maintained disciplined poker faces in their interactions with one another throughout the ongoing BRICS summit in Johannesburg -- not giving any hint that anything's wrong, severely wrong, between their two countries. ...
Indian Media Bashes Xi, Praises Modi Over Flag Markers at BRICS Photo Shoot
The South African organizers of the BRICS summit stupidly used small national flags as floor markers for where the five leaders should stand during a photo shoot on Wednesday. Putting a flag on the ground for someone to step on is ...
The Fate of the BRICS Depends on Xi and Modi
Forget about everything that you've heard about this week's BRICS summit in Johannesburg because none of it matters. The fact that Putin didn't go in person seems important, right? No, not really. What about the idea of a dollar-killing BRICS currency? ...
Xi Mysteriously Failed to Show Up at a BRICS Event, Sparking Wild Speculation Over What Happened
The opening day of the BRICS summit in South Africa began as expected on Tuesday with a flurry of high-profile arrivals in Johannesburg followed by a bilateral meeting between South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. The two ...
Even Xi’s Spokesperson Didn’t Seem to Know What Happened
President Xi's unexplained absence from the BRICS Business Forum on Tuesday also seemingly caught the Foreign Ministry's top spokesperson off guard as well. Hua Chunying published a post on X following the event, erroneously claiming that "Xi Jinping delivered an addressed ...
Relations Between China and South Africa Have Entered a “Golden Era,” Says Xi
Chinese President Xi Jinping began his visit to South Africa on Tuesday with a round of bilateral diplomacy with his host Cyril Ramaphosa. The two leaders met for talks in the capital Pretoria where Xi declared that relations between the two ...
Xi Jinping Will Cover Many Bases During His Visit to South Africa
China’s President Xi Jinping's visit to the BRICS summit also includes an official state visit to South Africa on Tuesday. Both governments emphasized their long relationship (this year marks 25 years of diplomatic ties) and said they want to deepen their comprehensive strategic partnership.
Possible Xi-Modi Meeting in Johannesburg?
One of the closest-watched interactions at the summit will be between India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping. Tensions between the two Asian superpowers have been rising due to an ongoing border dispute and larger geopolitical wranglings. There are
Chinese Scholars: BRICS Is All About Confronting the West
Many Chinese scholars have weighed in on this week’s BRICS summit, and the framing of the discussion on Chinese-language platforms is revealing. Commentators tend to see the bloc's importance as mostly lying in how it directly confronts Western global primacy. This ...