So, What Happened to Xi Jinping at the BRICS Summit?
Hotair | 08/23/2023 | John SextonThe BRICS summit is taking place in South Africa this week. BRICS started out as BRIC for Brazil, Russia, India and China but has since added South Africa.
BRICSA?
The group of nations doesn’t have much in common except a generalized sense of grievance over the US being the most powerful country in the world.
Why not call the group “WAAAAH”?
In Johannesburg, a big topic of conversation will be the outsize influence of the U.S. dollar in the global economy.
[Certainly not in the U.S. economy. It doesn’t even buy a quarter of a gallon of gas.]
Talk of “de-dollarization” is rife among exponents of the BRICS, even though not formally on the summit’s agenda. Some have floated a rival BRICS-backed currency to challenge the greenback’s supremacy. But the invention of a new BRICS currency is wildly ambitious — and probably unfeasible — and the summit is expected to focus instead on options to expand the use of local currencies in trade between bloc members. Dollar-strapped countries like Argentina have already started dealing in the Chinese yuan in certain transactions.
“Why does Brazil need the dollar to trade with China or Argentina? We can trade in our currency,” Lula told reporters recently, before casting the BRICS bank as a more just potential actor on the world stage than U.S.-led institutions like the International Monetary Fund.
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Wait: if Argentina is in the mix, shouldn’t it be BRICSA-A?
Or CRIBSAAbies??
[Oppo sips martini contentedly, contemplating his wisdom while eating the olive with a toothpick]
So the general idea of this conference is for these countries to get together as a kind of vague rival to the G7 or the G20. What you don’t want at a meeting like this is signs of confusion or possible problems behind the scenes.
And now, the reason I posted this: the Pythonesque arabesques from the diplomatic corps[e]
But this week China is experiencing both. First, there was this incident in which a Chinese aide seen running after Xi Jinping was stopped by security who, it seems, didn’t know who he was. As you can see in this clip, Xi seems confused and stops and looks back.
Good enough, but:
At BRICS summit, South African security officers stop Chinese President Xi Jinping’s officials who were trying to make their way in. Literally had to close the doors, prompting the Chinese President to look back several times. pic.twitter.com/EHhsd6IKEH
— Sidhant Sibal (@sidhant) August 23, 2023
And the capper:
It turns out the man who got body slammed into a door was Xi’s translator. You can see the same small guy with glasses in this earlier video shot upon Xi’s arrival.
“You stop body-slamming me now!”
Rule # One- Never run towards a person that is a potential target of violence..
And in other Commie news some guy was bothering Putin but he won’t be doing that anymore. It seems he had a sorta fatal accident while flying at twenty thousand feet. Oh well, s**t happens…hummmmm, I wonder how you say that in Russian?
That cracked me up — who didn’t see this coming from the first moment that the news reported he was heading to Moscow with his crew? I mean, come on, man!
Coup, Coup, Kabloom!
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