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Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the summit of the BRICS group of nations in South Africa in August “by mutual agreement”, South Africa’s presidency said on Wednesday.
“By mutual agreement, President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation will not attend the summit, but the Russian Federation will be represented by Foreign Minister Mr [Sergey] Lavrov,” Vincent Magwenya, a spokesman for President Cyril Ramaphosa, said in a statement.
South Africa faced a dilemma in hosting the summit because, as a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) which issued an arrest warrant for Putin in March for alleged war crimes, it would theoretically be required to arrest him if he were to attend.
The dilemma led to intense debate in South Africa and the West about whether the warrant would be executed, given South Africa’s stance of neutrality on the war in Ukraine and Pretoria’s historic ties to the Kremlin.
In 2015, South Africa also failed to arrest then-Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir, who was also the subject of an ICC warrant.
The leaders of Brazil, India and South Africa will attend the summit, the presidency said.
BRICS, a bloc of emerging economic powers comprising Brazil, Russia, India and China was formed in 2019 as BRIC. South Africa joined the following year after an invitation from China, expanding the group.
Ethiopia, Iran and Argentina have also applied to join the bloc.
Having to compare oneself with the capitalist hellhole that is the United States just to look good is really telling for China.
Also more copypasta. I give up.
Couldn’t be because you have nothing substantial to say must be bacuse i’m a copypasta tankie wumao
I, for one, found your posts informative, thank you.
Chinese homeownership is 89% Germany’s is 49.5
Germany’s Suicide Rate is 12.3 average compared to 8.1
China gdp growth rate for 2021 was 8.11%, a 5.87% increase from 2020.
Germany gdp growth rate for 2021 was 2.63%, a 6.32% increase from 2020.
Per: http://datatopics.worldbank.org/world-development-indicators/
Germany does have lower crime, better literacy, and a lower maternal mortality rate however I would like to add that China’s vast rural areas have improved immensely from 1949 onward.
The quality of these “homes” might want to be taken into account. When the building falls down because there’s no real inspection process, are the survivors compensated by the state that failed them?
https://apnews.com/article/world-news-tianjin-china-asset-management-2f5d1248477a8e044d9fa7b6899ca406
“The Second Intermediate People’s Court of Tianjin ruled in January that death was justified because Lai took “especially enormous” bribes to make investments, offer construction contracts, help with promotions and provide other favors.”
In the western world this corruption gets a nominal “fine” that they have a section for when creating their corporate budgets
Are you saying that this is the case? What are your sources?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/30/dozens-missing-after-building-collapses-in-china-in-latest-incident
Easy enough to find more.
I can also do a search for “building collapse” and cherrypick articles that appear to support my claim, but random individual instances do not prove a systemic issue. The part of the article that you quoted is an unsubstantiated claim without any backing evidence or sources.
I’d rather pound my pecker flat with a mallet than try to convince a tankie that China isn’t the greatest country in the universe and completely above criticism.
The Guardián is a right-wing capitalist British misinformation website