Russian President Vladimir Putin will be notably absent when Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders from the BRICS group of emerging economies start a three-day summit in South Africa on Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will be notably absent when Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders from the BRICS group of emerging economies start a three-day summit in South Africa on Tuesday.
Doesn’t belong there anyway, he’s in charge of a submerging economy.
South Africa isn’t an emerging economy either. It’s also submerging. Rolling blackouts, failing infrastructure, unemployment north of 30% (officially, unofficially it’s probably closer to 60) and rising. It’s a failed state, it just doesn’t know it yet.