To bring an end to the dollar hegemony one doesn’t need one common competing currency, but a number of national ones, according to former Ronald Reagan official and renowned American economist Dr
Editorial What exactly did India leave out of the statement issued after Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri’s visit to Colombo? More importantly, why are the questions that matter most to Sri Lanka missing
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At the BRICS summit in South Africa in the summer of 2023, the group’s five member states made a bold decision: they invited five new countries to join. The move was greeted
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by Our Correspondent in New Delhi Five days after the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in what is widely reported as a US-Israel strike, India formally expressed its condemnation and
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Editorial Where were the BRICS countries when one of their permanent members was struck and its head of state was decapitated? Not issuing warnings. Not convening emergency sessions. Not even speaking in
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This column was originally published in Sunday Morning, a Colombo-based weekly newspaper. India was not in the West’s favour until the early 1990s, maintaining a close and unapologetic alignment with the Soviet
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China, Russia and Iran on Saturday began a week of joint naval exercises in South Africa’s territorial waters, an operation the host nation described as a BRICS Plus initiative aimed at safeguarding
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The U.S. President Donald Trump has issued a stern warning to BRICS nations, threatening a 10% tariff on all imports from member states if they continue efforts to challenge the dominance of
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The 17th BRICS Summit, to be held in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on Sunday and Monday, comes at a time of growing global volatility. Amid mounting geopolitical tensions and
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The post-Cold War order is unravelling. The global trading system and the multilateral order, painstakingly built after the Second World War, have been torn apart. What once stood as a framework for
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor We must, without doubt, congratulate another gathering of BRICS 2025, but this polished ceremony of rhetorical commitment masks a disquieting duplicity—a theatre of solidarity that often performs
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