PATRICK BULGER | Internal affairs: the rise of the new global untouchables

Brics started life as a trading bloc, but under China’s tutelage and Russian guidance, it has ambitions to become a new, alternative centre of power in a Western-dominated world

24 August 2023 - 21:08
By Patrick Bulger

Brics started life as a trading bloc, but under China’s tutelage and Russian guidance, it has ambitions to become a new, alternative centre of power in a Western-dominated world. But a lack of accountability is arguably the flipside of the aggressive resource nationalism that is reshaping global politics

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