Silk Road Economic Belt

Opinion: A BRICS Bank to Challenge the Bretton Woods System?

By Daya Thussu
The formal opening of the BRICS Bank in Shanghai on Jul. 21 following the seventh summit of the world’s five leading emerging economies held recently in the Russian city of Ufa, demonstrates the speed with which an alternative global financial architecture is emerging.

Can China’s Silk Road Vision Coexist with a Eurasian Union?

By Chris Rickleton
There is a good chance that economic jockeying between China and Russia in Central Asia will intensify in the coming months. For Russia, Chinese economic expansion could put a crimp in President Vladimir Putin’s grand plan for the Eurasian Economic Union.
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