The mutual friendship between China and Africa is founded on shared history, values and a desire for prosperity for humankind. It is a history of the fight against imperialism, colonialism, hegemony and dispossession. China’s engagement with Africa is one of equals as developing nations with the quest for a shared future characterised by social justice, freedom, equality, peaceful co-existence and shared prosperity.   The recent 15th BRICS Summit, hosted by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, as well as all associated events…

At the dawn of the 21st century, a trend in political development (and beyond) has been observed towards the reduction of national sovereignty and transfer of several control functions to supranational structures, in the context of the march of globalization. The refraction of this trend in International Law is, obviously, the International Criminal Court (ICC). It was founded “at the pinnacle of triumph” of the unipolar world in 1998, and represents an example of a global governance body in which…

Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the joint construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt in September 2013 in Kazakhstan, and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road in the following month in Indonesia, together known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In a decade, the BRI has become a reality, reviving the ancient Silk Roads.   The BRI, based on history and proposed by China, concentrates on the future and benefits the world as a whole. According to Ahsan Iqbal, Pakistan’s…

The Western media has pushed some lies about Palestinian resistance fighters, which is highly misleading. The people fighting a legitimate resistance against the occupying forces that displaced them from their land have been conveniently characterised as terrorists, murderers and anti-semitic savages. This categorisation of Palestinian fighters as terrorists has desensitised many victims of Western liberal ideology spreading falsehoods at an industrial global scale.     Without proof, the mainstream Western media recently said that Palestinian freedom fighters had beheaded 40 Israeli babies…

Ahead of the G20 summit in India on September 9-10, much has been written about Western plans to reset relations with African countries to counter the growing influence of Russia and China on the continent. For example, the press indicated that the European Union would support the African Union’s membership in the G20, and the United States would seek support from countries in the Global South to achieve its goals in Ukraine. To be honest, they talked about the African…

Dmitry Birichevsky, the Department of Economic Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, spoke in the studio of the TV BRICS and CGTN BizTalk special programme about the potential of the Chinese initiative of the same name and the concept of the Greater Eurasian Partnership (GEP). The interview took place ahead of the third forum of international cooperation “One Belt, One Road”.  What is your assessment of current trends in the world economy? What is the role…

The splendour of the 15th BRICS Summit has come and gone. The rendezvous in the so-called “Africa’s richest square mile,” Sandton, north of Johannesburg, was quite a diplomatic spectacle which brought together 60 developing countries from across the Global South, as well as the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres. The summit was a watershed moment as it saw the expansion of the group through the admission of six new full members, namely, Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and…

Since last year, Taiwan has served as a stage for politicians from countries like the US, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Canada and the UK to make a show. Congress members, retired officials, and local leaders of these countries have been flocking to the island for photo opportunities. They speak wildly, showing their “concerns” for the Taiwan question.   Since August 2022, in addition to then Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, visits have been made by South Korean…

September 12, 1977 holds profound lessons of struggle through a thinker, a struggle icon, a human philosopher and a realist who was brutally murdered forty-six years ago. It brings closer the privilege and the presence of mind of having been in the same space, four decades ago, of one who, when he learnt that Steve Bantu Biko took his last breath of life on this day, dropped everything where he was in Lesotho and rushed back to South Africa where…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan failed to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to continue the Black Sea Grain Initiative during their meeting in the Russian city of Sochi on Sept. 4. Russia had suspended the initiative in July after complaining that Western partners had not lifted restrictions on banking and logistics. Erdoğan has strongly supported maintaining the grain agreement negotiated by the United Nations and Turkey in July 2022. Since then, nearly 33 million tons of grain and other food…