The rising profile of the Brics has reshaped the geopolitical economy and this has given rise to the idea of setting up a development bank.
South Africa’s inclusion into Brics has been a political triumph, but the real challenges are about to start.
South Africa has to start developing strategies to take advantage of its deposits of limited metals, similar to China.
The two countries with the world’s largest economies must co-exist in a relationship and despite their frosty relationship, the future is promising.
Brics members — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — are expected to begin cross-listing financial products.
Leaders of the emerging world will discuss the creation of a new development bank at a summit shadowed by protests against the Chinese president.
President Jacob Zuma intends to position SA as a global force representing emerging African economies in international platforms at the Brics summit.
The US and China have agreed to coordinate their response if North Korea goes through with a planned rocket launch next month.
China’s Great Firewall has finally met its match, with its web users developing a bizarre code to blog about political sagas.
Fossilised remains of stone age people recovered from caves in China may belong to a new species of human that survived until the dawn of agriculture.
In a formal complaint to the WTO, the US, EU and Japan have accused Beijing of trying to hold down prices for its domestic manufacturers.
The legal trading of ivory has not helped the elephant so there’s no reason to think the legal trading of rhino horn can be different.
International sanctions have a patchy history, and Iran’s oil elite have been dodging them for decades, writes <b>Peg Mackey</b>.
Artist Ai Weiwei has expressed his regret at contributing to China’s successful hosting of the 2008 Olympics by designing the National Stadium.
Are SA firms becoming more optimistic? Can Greece avoid a debt default? Has China tamed inflation? <b>Matt Quigley</b> considers the global economy.
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/ 29 February 2012
A new scheme has been created with the hope it will cool popular anger over high housing prices in China — but the numbers don’t add up enough.
The state has allegedly urged French and Chinese nuclear companies to put in a bid for nuclear power stations, but the energy department denies this.
Soaring purchases of gold bullion and the rising jewellery sales are helping China become the world’s biggest market for gold.
Apple has won round one of a trademark case against it after a Shanghai court ruled its iPads could still be sold in the city.
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/ 14 February 2012
China concedes that it needs to work together with the EU to solve Europe’s debt crisis.
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/ 14 February 2012
A Chinese envoy has met the head of the Arab league as the country tries to repair relations damaged by its veto of a UN resolution on Syria.
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/ 11 February 2012
Chinese bank lending fell 28% in January from a year earlier, suggesting Beijing is reluctant to open the credit valves too quickly.
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/ 10 February 2012
United States sanctions on Iranian oil exports set to impact local refiners.
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/ 8 February 2012
Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping’s visit to the US next week could set the mood for the next decade that he is likely to serve as president.
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/ 7 February 2012
A group of Chinese workers kidnapped in South Sudan 11 days ago by rebels have been freed and flown to Kenya.
The year ahead may yet prove a tough time for commodities, but the outlook from the 2012 Mining Indaba is cautiously optimistic, thanks to China.
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/ 5 February 2012
China has become Iran’s top trading partner as the sanctions against the Islamic republic have become progressively tougher.
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/ 5 February 2012
Russia and China have blocked a UN Security Council resolution condemning Syria, hours after the country’s forces bombed Homs, killing hundreds.
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/ 3 February 2012
Zuma looking to China for infrastructure development.
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/ 2 February 2012
China will press South Sudan for help in securing the release of 29 Chinese workers held by rebels and may ask the AU to mediate in negotiations.
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/ 2 February 2012
China says Tibetans shot dead by police during the worst unrest to hit the conflicted Sichuan region since 2008 were part of a separatist plot.
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/ 27 January 2012
China making huge strides in using green energy but coal consumption continues to increase.