www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

中文
Home > 9th BRICS Summit

Africa seeks rivalry-free BRICS' support

By Elizabeth Sidiropoulos ( China Daily )

Updated: 2017-09-01

Although the theme of the 9th BRICS Summit is "A Stronger Partnership for a Brighter Future", there is likely to be some underlying tension among the five member states when they meet in Xiamen, East China's Fujian province, from Sept 3 to 5.

Eurasian rivalries such as border disputes are not new of course, but yet again they have shown that disagreements do not militate against cooperation. Furthermore, as emerging powers that wish to have a greater say in global affairs, and with potential leverage in conflict hot-spots such as the Korean Peninsula, the BRICS members should use the platform to propose a way forward to break the current spiral.

On the economic front China and India continue to be important engines of growth in the world economy, having benefited from an open trading system over the years. Undoubtedly the BRICS Summit will reflect unanimity in the members' commitment to an open global economic system, especially one where the industrialized world does not adopt more protectionist measures.

Africa seeks rivalry-free BRICS' support

China, India, Brazil and Russia have ratified the World Trade Organization's trade facilitation agreement (with South Africa in the process of doing so). This is important because the "connectivity" promoted by the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative is not only about building ports, roads and railways, but also about the soft institutional mechanisms that help trade around the world.

India has not joined the Belt and Road Initiative, announcing rather a new initiative with Japan called the "Asia-Africa Growth Corridor", which also seeks to improve connectivity between the two continents. The AAGC was in fact launched at the annual meeting of the African Development Bank in India 10 days after the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation held in Beijing on May 14-15. Like Moscow's Eurasian Economic Union, which Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed at the 2015 Ufa BRICS Summit would cooperate with the Belt and Road Initiative, the AAGC offers much opportunity for complementarity.

The fact that the three initiatives are led by BRICS members could help strengthen the practical links between the grouping and other countries - a form of "BRICS Plus". Yet that would require concerted efforts to bridge differences and remove mutual suspicions about geopolitical machinations.

South Africa was the first country in the BRICS to initiate an outreach to other countries when it chaired the summit in 2013. This has been followed by every single chair since then, and has facilitated engagement between BRICS and other developing economies.

However, it is not clear yet what the outreach has achieved in concrete terms. There are no "BRICS projects" per se with outreach countries, but BRICS has been a platform to discuss cooperation, whether bilateral or multilateral. Five years since the first such outreach, it is important to take stock of progress and how to best leverage the convening power of the BRICS in support of global development.

African states recognize the opportunities offered by the AAGC and arguably the Belt and Road Initiative for their development, although the latter still has to define what it may mean for the whole continent beyond Africa's eastern seaboard. While there is much that would still need to be fleshed out before the Belt and Road Initiative and the AAGC plans in Africa could be integrated into the African Union's Agenda 2063, Africans value their partnerships with both India and China and would seek to work on complementarities rather than rivalries. There are enough projects to go around.

Beyond these plans, though, what is crucial for Africa's development in an age of global uncertainty is that the world's great powers in the developing world play an active and constructive role in reducing conflict hot-spots, while managing their own regional rivalries.

The author is the chief executive of the South African Institute of International Affairs.

(China Daily 09/01/2017 page9)

Copyright ?2017 Fujian Provincial Publicity Department (International Publicity Office) All Rights Reserved.
主站蜘蛛池模板: 天天综合色一区二区三区 | 18黄网站 | 久草国产视频 | 欧美成人特黄级毛片 | 草草视频在线观看 | 亚洲精品亚洲人成毛片不卡 | 久久免费视频2 | 日本精品久久久久久久 | 免费一级欧美片片线观看 | 亚洲 欧美 日韩中文字幕一区二区 | 另类女最新视频 | 怡红院成人网 | 97在线播放 | 国内精品福利视频 | 欧美日本一区二区 | 亚洲精品久久久久网站 | 免费看一级毛片欧美 | 国产乱子伦在线观看不卡 | 色婷婷激婷婷深爱五月老司机 | 午夜欧美成人久久久久久 | 欧美kkk4444在线观看 | 黄色三级视频在线播放 | 国产黄色a三级三级三级 | 91色综合综合热五月激情 | 日本一级在线播放线观看视频 | 国产欧美精品午夜在线播放 | 亚洲深夜| 日日摸人人拍人人澡 | 美国黑人特大一级毛片 | 中文字幕亚洲一区二区v@在线 | 欧美高清亚洲欧美一区h | 精品久久久久久久久久中文字幕 | 国产美女精品一区二区三区 | 国产亚洲综合久久 | 免费一级特黄 欧美大片 | 国产人成午夜免费噼啪视频 | 日韩午夜视频在线观看 | 日韩国产片 | 亚洲人在线播放 | 欧美中文字幕一区二区三区 | 日本在线亚洲 |