The Duran Podcast Supercharging SCO and BRICS integration
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Sep 1, 2025 Recent developments at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization showcase leaders like Xi Jinping, Modi, and Putin collaborating in business. The dynamics between SCO and BRICS highlight India's pivotal role amidst shifting geopolitical currents. The complexity of U.S.-India relations reveals a gap in understanding India's sovereignty. The contrasting strategies of Putin and Zelensky in the Ukraine conflict illustrate different approaches to garnering support. Additionally, the evolving U.S.-Europe relationship is critiqued as potentially problematic for American interests.
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SCO Has Become A Leaders' Forum
- The SCO has evolved from an anti-terror talking shop into a leaders' forum handling politics and security.
- It now hosts major leaders and overlaps with BRICS activity, deepening multipolar integration.
BRICS And SCO Are Converging
- BRICS focuses on trade and finance while the SCO handles political-security matters, and the two are converging.
- Leaders bring business delegations and sign deals, accelerating a parallel system to the West.
Summits Drive Concrete Economic Deals
- Leaders attend with large economic delegations and conclude concrete business deals during summits.
- These meetings thus advance the creation of a multipolar system with practical economic integration.