BRICS+

A Big Threat to the West!

De: Philemon Fields

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

There is a quiet threat that has been building that incorporates China, India, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Brazil, South Africa, Iran, and Ethiopia, and it now accounts for 45% of the world's population, 30% of Earth's land mass, and 25% of global trade. This has been monikered the BRICS+ since 2023, but its origin dates back to a publication from 2001 that was written by O'Neill who at the time was the Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Fast forward to June 16, 2009 right at the tail end of the global financial crisis, and the founding members thought that O'Neill's publication, "Building Better Global Economic BRICs" started to make a lot of sense. Nearly all the big players in the BRICS+ are in the G20, but still, they clearly feel marginalized by the G7 and the status quo that was established and governed global trade post-WWII to the present, specifically the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund. The BRICS+ members have never stated publicly that they are against these organizations as they participate in them, yet their objectives in increasing trade between themselves in conjunction with the male youth bulge underway throughout these states are very concerning. De-dollarization is happening, and all of the participating nations and those that will join the BRICS+ in the future will adopt the same financial policies, energy exportation, technological adoption, and much more. The public goal of the BRICS+ is for developing nations and the states in the Southern Hemisphere to have more influence in international politics, but the reality is that the main benefactor of the trading bloc is China. The People's Republic of China is every nation's largest trading partner, and their relationship with the BRICS+ nations is set to bring economic expansion, control of global energy markets, power over all international finance, and cooperation in technological research and development to all participating members. Analysts are across the board regarding the future of the BRICS+, but one thing that is certain is that it's growing and will become more powerful. The only real play for the US and EU here is to quash the G20 in combination with creating the G7+ by adding South Korea, Spain, Mexico, Australia, Algeria, Nigeria, and Kenya as well as extending membership to India and Brazil if they leave the BRICS+. There are some wildcards in this proposed list, but the list does include the global south and offers imports and exports of raw materials and finished products from participating countries that don't have to go through the Gulf of Aden. It's clear that the publicly stated objectives of the BRICS+ seem to be altruistic, but the underlying objective of the economic powerhouse, i.e., China, is to bolster its Belt and Road Initiative, which is essentially a modern-day pilfering of the 56 countries in the African Continent's vast resources and labor or neocolonialism. In short, the G7 countries must act swiftly to quash the growth of the BRICS+ to maintain democratic values throughout the world and free trade in conjunction with rebranding the American dollar and American treasuries.

"China will always remain the builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and an upholder of international order." -President Xi of China