BRICS Cannot Provide any Alternate to the West BRICS Cannot Provide any Alternate to the West

News Review 28/05/2022: The leak of a sweeping economic and security pact revealed China is hoping to sign up 10 Pacific countries to a deal that could fundamentally alter the balance of power in a region that spans nearly one-third of the globe. Now Pacific nations are facing a choice that will shape the region for decades to come.

News Review 14/05/2022

The war is going badly for Putin. The Russian President has built his leadership on the idea of Russian greatness yet personal weakness compels him to try to prove it at every opportunity. America exploited Putin’s earlier boastful grandstanding to provoke him into invading Ukraine, and America is exploiting Putin’s need to be seen as the victor to provoke him into continuing a war that is clearly impossible for Russia…