Global Courant
Video duration 28 minutes 00 seconds
Foreign ministers from the BRICS countries met in Cape Town with South Africa hosting fellow members Brazil, Russia, India and China.
The group started somewhat informally in 2006 and South Africa joined four years later. But in today’s more polarized geopolitical world, the BRICS club has become more important.
Several countries have expressed interest in joining the bloc.
Does this group of emerging economies have the potential to shift the balance between world trade and power? Or is it a political utopia?
Presenter: Mohammed Jamjoom
Guests:
Sanusha Naidu – Senior research fellow at the Institute for Global Dialogue, an independent foreign policy think tank
Chris Weafer – CEO of Macro-Advisory, a strategic consulting firm in the Eurasia region
Shirley Yu – Political economist and senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School
