BRICS & New World Order Thread
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Indonesia joins Brics as newest full member, Brazil foreign ministry says
Addition of world’s fourth-most populous nation to group of major emerging national economies hailed as ‘deepening’ Global South cooperation
Well this is interesting, good for Indonesia. Indonesia is a much better partner than Argentina and Saudi Arabia to the global south anyways.
Yeah, I remember just a few months ago when Indonesia didn't even want to join and was certainly not talked about as one of the few next members.
And here this comes. I think this new president turned out to be quite amazing. Indonesia will become more and more important as the center of ASEAN.
After India and Brazil, I think that Indonesia is the next strongest regional power in the world right now so quite a fitting addition.
As this is new Asian century, and as friends with China, Indonesia will reap even more benefits and power in this new world than even India.
this is great news. I would agree that Indonesia is more important than even Saudi Arabia.
Indonesia is a growing power and the 4th most populous nation in the world.
Saudi Arabia is on the way down and since that declining oil price can't sustain their spending spree.
And a full membership too. They deserve it. Frankly, Saudis should get kicked out if they keep sitting on the fences.
The BRICS wikipedia page and BRICS membership wikipedia page doesn't even mention Saudi Arabia and Argentina anymore. Are those two countries that disconnected from BRICS already? I thought the delay was more temporary. Saudi Arabia is still strategically good for BRICS due to their oil reserves and pricing power.
Well that came out of the blue! But agreed, Indonesia a far more useful member than Argentina at least. Saudi must be getting a sore arse sitting on the fence so long.
What BRICS+ now needs to do is to decide what it's actually for, and develop a concerted plan of action to achieve this.
What BRICS+ now needs to do is to decide what it's actually for, and develop a concerted plan of action to achieve this.
Russians claimed that Saudi Arabia joined BRICS and Westoids claimed that it didn't.
But the reality is that Saudi Arabia received the invite, but never confirmed joining nor declined formally.
They are obviously hedging their bets. However, they are participating in all meetings as they were real full members, so this is probably to retain some face to the US.
Btw, just now I saw that even Turkey formally applied to fully join BRICS a few months ago but was rejected by India due to their relations with Pakistan. It didn't cross my radar.
they are just sitting on the fences. Waiting on this grand bargain with US where they get protection in exchange for not getting too close to China and establishing relationship with Israel.
So I think they've been waiting on Trump to come back to get a good deal. At some point, Saudis do have to chose I think. The longer they wait, the less useful they get. I don't think the leadership there really understands this.
They are what I would call a depreciating asset.