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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend the group photo session during the BRICS Summit at the Xiamen International Conference and Exhibition Center in Xiamen, southeastern China’s Fujian province, on September 4, 2017. Photo: Reuters\/Kenzaburo Fukuhara\/Pool<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The real BRICS bombshell<\/a><\/h3>\n

Putin reveals ‘fair multipolar world’ concept in which oil contracts could bypass the US dollar and be traded with oil, yuan and gold<\/strong><\/p>\n

The annual BRICS summit in Xiamen \u2013 where President Xi Jinping was once mayor \u2013 could not intervene in a more incandescent geopolitical context.<\/div>\n
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Once again, it\u2019s essential to keep in mind that the current core of BRICS is \u201cRC\u201d; the Russia-China strategic partnership. So in the Korean peninsula chessboard, RC context \u2013 with both nations sharing borders with the DPRK \u2013 is primordial.<\/p>\n

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Beijing has imposed a definitive veto on war \u2013 of which the Pentagon is very much aware.<\/p>\n

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Pyongyang\u2019s sixth nuclear test, although planned way in advance, happened only three days after two nuclear-capable US B-1B strategic bombers conducted their own \u201ctest\u201d alongside four F-35Bs and a few Japanese F-15s.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Everyone familiar with the Korean peninsula chessboard knew there would be a DPRK response to these barely disguised \u201cdecapitation\u201d tests.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s back to the only sound proposition on the table: the RC \u201cdouble freeze\u201d. Freeze on US\/Japan\/South Korea military drills; freeze on North Korea\u2019s nuclear program; diplomacy takes over.<\/p>\n

The White House, instead, has evoked ominous \u201cnuclear capabilities\u201d as a conflict resolution mechanism.<\/p>\n

Gold mining in the Amazon, anyone?<\/h3>\n

On the Doklam plateau front, at least New Delhi and Beijing decided, after two tense months, on \u201cexpeditious disengagement\u201d of their border troops. This decision was directly linked to the approaching BRICS summit \u2013 where both India and China were set to lose face big time.<\/p>\n

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend the group photo session during the BRICS Summit at the Xiamen International Conference and Exhibition Center in Xiamen, southeastern China’s Fujian province, on September 4, 2017. Photo: Reuters\/Kenzaburo Fukuhara\/Pool The real BRICS bombshell Putin reveals ‘fair multipolar world’ concept in which oil contracts could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[15907,1860,13939,4076,626,15908,839],"class_list":["post-25323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-asia-times","tag-brics","tag-multipolar-world","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-petrodollar","tag-unipolar-world","tag-us-dollar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25324,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25323\/revisions\/25324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}