Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:16 BST |
Brazil has just hosted the second annual BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) summit on April 15-16, but I think there are good reasons to doubt how much strength this grouping actually has in terms of changing the world – at least in a collective fashion. Below, I list some thoughts about BRICs as a concept:
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Tags: Brazil, BRICs, China, financial reform, geopolitical power, IMF, India, influence, rebalancing, reserve currency, Russia, summit, World Bank
Posted in: Africa, Asia, China, Commodities, Currencies, Emerging Europe, FDI, Financials, General, Geopolitics, Latin America, Political Risk, US
Thu Nov 12, 2009 17:37 GMT |
US President Barack Obama, en route to ‘Asia’ (I use the speech marks, because Asia is so diverse and it is inaccurate to consider it a single entity), has no shortage of issues to deal with when he gets there. There seems to be a general feeling that US influence in Asia is on the [Read more...]
Tags: ASEAN, Asia trip, Barack Obama, China, Economy, exchange rate, influence, integration, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Southeast Asia, surplus, Trade
Posted in: Asia, China, General, Geopolitics, Political Risk, US
