#SouthAfrica: #BRICS: The gathering of the Global South. Ronan Wordsworth, GeopoliticalFutures.com @GPFutures
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🗓️ 29 July 2023
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#SouthAfrica: #BRICS: The gathering of the Global South. Ronan Wordsworth, GeopoliticalFutures.com @GPFutures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/south-africas-difficult-balancing-act/
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| 0:28.5 | The bricks, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, |
| 0:32.8 | meeting in week's time, August 22nd, to discuss not only trade and development |
| 0:39.2 | in the global south, but also, of course, the war in Ukraine and the challenge to |
| 0:45.1 | bricks into the future. There are states circling around that would very much |
| 0:50.8 | favor an invitation to bricks, the least among them right now is South Africa. |
| 0:56.8 | That state is a member and at the same time has its own needs as it gathers together the leaders |
| 1:03.9 | of the giants that would be Russian, India, and China, and Brazil. I go to Ronan Wordsworth |
| 1:11.3 | of Geopolitical Futures. He's in Europe, observing situation in Africa. |
| 1:16.5 | And the first question I ask is a simple cynical one. What's in it for South Africa, |
| 1:21.2 | this bricks meeting? Ronan, a very good day to you. What does South Africa hope to achieve |
| 1:26.1 | hosting this gathering of war eagles? Good evening to you. |
| 1:30.8 | Thanks very much, John. Yes, for South Africa, they say bricks is a very important |
| 1:37.4 | political platform for them. Now, obviously, as you say, the other four countries are much bigger |
| 1:42.4 | economically, and South Africa is very much the junior member. But when you look at the position |
| 1:48.9 | of bricks and being able to host a meeting like this, it elevates their status on the world |
| 1:54.4 | on the world stage. And again, as part of this, I think that they believe that it can open up |
| 2:00.8 | opportunities both for increased trade, maybe some investment coming into South Africa, |
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