Time to stop seeing Russia as a BRIC

[FairAndUnbiased]

Putin will fail in his endeavor in making BRICS a geopolitical unit. India and China regard each other as enemies and competitors. The 5 countries has no serious cultural relationships whatsoever with one another. And their economy are growing at different level and are fuel by different source. The only thing that tie them together is Goldman Sach's assessment that was created to help the company make money. Its time for Goldman Sachs to unbind these 5 countries and stop this silly group.

Chinese and Russians share alot of cultural similarities: love for pork, chicken and hard alcohol, disregard for beef, culture that heavily emphasizes education, a multicultural nation with a single dominant ethnicity, and a belief that their own country can stand on its own merits and contribute positively to humanity, without the help of others and without the need for recognition from anyone.

I agree that we share nothing in common with Indians, Brazilians and South Africans.

 

[RayKalm]

It does not matter what Russia or China say. If we do go in militarily, both wont do anything about it but give more warnings and crap News Articles about how Evil we are.

The power of good will always be on our side.... Evil and Communist regimes will fall.

You're not good. You do not represent good.

 

[Fanling Monk]

Putin will fail in his endeavor in making BRICS a geopolitical unit. India and China regard each other as enemies and competitors. The 5 countries has no serious cultural relationships whatsoever with one another. And their economy are growing at different level and are fuel by different source. The only thing that tie them together is Goldman Sach's assessment that was created to help the company make money. Its time for Goldman Sachs to unbind these 5 countries and stop this silly group.

BRICS is meaningless for China and doesn't serve China's core interests. It's better for China to seek her own economic alliances with individual countries that fit her needs rather than tie down with certain block of countries. And besides China is a doer not a talker when it comes to business.

 

[ChinaToday]

Brics is a joke when you had country like india in it

 

[qwerrty]

Brics is a joke when you had country like india in it

this BRIC thing is bs. china is in a league of its own. china alone is more commpetitive and bigger than those 3 countries combined.

*ttp://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GCR_CompetitivenessIndexRanking_2011-12.pdf

 

[Jade]

Putin will fail in his endeavor in making BRICS a geopolitical unit. India and China regard each other as enemies and competitors. The 5 countries has no serious cultural relationships whatsoever with one another. And their economy are growing at different level and are fuel by different source. The only thing that tie them together is Goldman Sach's assessment that was created to help the company make money. Its time for Goldman Sachs to unbind these 5 countries and stop this silly group.

Yes, I agree with you. All the countries in BRIC have very diverse interests. However, it was not Goldman Sachs that grouped these countries, It was Russia. After the breakup of USSR, Russian initiated the idea of RIC (Russia, India, China), but the objectives at that time were political—to build a non-western power block to provide a counterweight to US dominance. But the idea did not go anywhere. Now, again Russia wants to revisit its own idea.

Except India, all the three countries in BRIC wants to formalizes the group. Russia for counting US dominance, China for pushing its currency yuan in trade with the emerging economies to gradually replace US dollar as the reserve currency and Brazil for gaining a global voice. For India, formalizing BRIC could mean loosing its strategic relationship with US.

this BRIC thing is bs. china is in a league of its own. china alone is more commpetitive and bigger than those 3 countries combined.

*ttp://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GCR_CompetitivenessIndexRanking_2011-12.pdf

Its is not about being in leagues, trade blocks have their own dynamics. Ex: NAFTA (United States, Canada, and Mexico): US economy is 15 time larger than Mexican economy.

 

[Juice]

You're not good. You do not represent good.

Yet you live here (and don't give me that "I'm in Canada cr@p, it is an appendage of the US, is in all our partnerships, NATO, NAFTA, etc., and certainly doesn't support Ummah", "sharia", North Korea, or any such nonsense.)

 

[Skorpian]

Syrian revolutionists are terrorists? REALLY?!
If they were terrorists, they would go violent since day 1. I've been following the Syrian revolution and their protests. Heck, at first they didn't even ask him to step down. They asked him to change, to change the country towards the better. But he went on killing them. They were fed up and asked him to step down, and he went on with his violence policy. Heck, he was killing his peaceful protests of his own country with tanks, TANKS!!
Something to note, those who fight in the Free Syrian Army are mostly, if not all of them, soldiers who split up from the army, because they couldn't stand killing their own people.
Don't you see how kids are killed? Don't you see how babies are killed? If these had been your family, you wouldn't have said the same.
P.S : I'm sorry to be off topic, but I had to reply to those who call the revolutionists of Syria terrorists.

 

[Juice]

Lol, the Pakistanis never fail to amaze me. When the Isrealis respond to a threat, and some children get killed, it's all "how can children be terrorist?" But the same happens in Syria, sure enough, the kids were terrorist, and were begging for tank shells.

(and then claim other nations flip-flop for national interest)

 

[Takaavar]

It does not matter what Russia or China say. If we do go in militarily, both wont do anything about it but give more warnings and crap News Articles about how Evil we are.

As far as I recall, the whole west totally shouted up about invading Syria after Russia's support for Assad.

 

[Raphael]

Ian Bremmer and Nouriel Roubini are both card-carrying neocon scum. Who cares what they have to say?

 

[Hulk]

If push comes to shove and we have to join someone, better join US.

 

[kawaraj]

Lol, the Pakistanis never fail to amaze me. When the Isrealis respond to a threat, and some children get killed, it's all "how can children be terrorist?" But the same happens in Syria, sure enough, the kids were terrorist, and were begging for tank shells.

(and then claim other nations flip-flop for national interest)

what about those kids die in some american occupied nations like Afghanistan, Iraq, how many will die?

mind your own @ss before ranting about as if your are the jurisdiction.

 

[gpit]

It does not matter what Russia or China say. If we do go in militarily, both wont do anything about it but give more warnings and crap News Articles about how Evil we are.

The power of good will always be on our side.... Evil and Communist regimes will fall.

Dude, you are insane.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

BRICS is meaningless for China and doesn't serve China's core interests. It's better for China to seek her own economic alliances with individual countries that fit her needs rather than tie down with certain block of countries. And besides China is a doer not a talker when it comes to business.

Nope it's not meaningless, otherwise Hu Jintao would not have formalized the group and held its first official meeting in China. It's actually vitally important.

This is not just about economic alliances but about geopolitics. There's absolutely no cost to be part of the BRICS (the Western countries that like us won't care, the Western countries that hate us will always do so, so there's no point in trying to please anyone else) but huge potential gains such as a unified BRICS telecom link so financial data streaming from say India to China doesn't have to be rerouted through hackable servers in Europe.

Also Russia and China are traditionally close (either close enemies or close allies). We might not like them but we sure as hell can't ignore the thermonuclear bear, nor can they afford to ignore us, so best that the attention is positive rather than negative.