The BRICS Summit in the Russian city of Kazan signals that the world is "tired" of the dictates of the US-led collective West, RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan has said. The gathering also exposes the West's failed attempts to isolate Russia, she added.
Speaking on Tuesday at an event marking the anniversary of diplomatic relations between Russia and China, the RT editor-in-chief recalled the words of Chinese President Xi Jinping, who once said that his country does not need foreign "masters" who attempt to interfere in internal affairs on the pretense of human rights concerns. The same can be heard in Russia from President Vladimir Putin, Simonyan stated.
"We know the price of their [the West's] hypocrisy when they talk about human rights, and this is being said by the same people who used drug trafficking and the most brutal, most disgusting ways to enslave a nation in an effort to force China not to be China - which they did during the Opium Wars," Simonyan said.She emphasized that the ongoing BRICS Summit in Kazan demonstrates the clear friendship between the countries attending the event, but also provides evidence of the West's failed attempts to isolate Russia from the rest of the world.
"It shows our fatigue - with them, with their hypocrisy, with their dictates. With their attempts to turn us into something different, with their attempts to chop off pieces from us," Simonyan said.Leaders from around the world have gathered in Kazan for the 16th BRICS Summit on October 22-24.
"We are all tired. Thank you for the fact that we are tired together and will eventually rest together when the truth prevails and this unipolar world, which is already in tatters, ceases to exist."
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who is also attending, noted the significance of the summit for his organization, as the economic grouping represents nearly half of the global population.
Guterres' presence at the BRICS Summit has sparked criticism from Kiev, especially after he skipped this year's Swiss-Ukraine 'peace conference'.
The BRICS Summit is set to host high-level bilateral talks and diplomatic discussions focused on multilateralism, with dozens of nations expressing interest in joining or working with the group.
BRICS currently comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates. The group represents approximately 46% of the world's population and over 36% of global GDP, according to estimates from leading financial institutions.
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Think about it. All these BRIC members have central banks and those banks for the most part are privately held. And furthermore, the central bankers who extend credit and demand payment back at interest (of a given states legislator body - if they have one) are part of the larger club of central bankers at the Bank of International Settlements(setup to settle war debt when a nation in debt for war loses, and the other parties "investors" who won get to dictate terms on repayment of debt). How can there be a challenge to any currency (US or otherwise) when each nations central bank has this arrangement? It is the big elephant in the room I think...Why are the central bankers not showing up at these BRIC meetings? Yes they have a lending body SCO which is separate from the IMF (but not really) because the extension of credit is still under the rules of the BIS with payment back to the owners of those central banks. This whole problem starts with constitutions like the United States which says that a nation has the "power" to go into debt to a privately held(in shares) bank. It did not start in 1913 folks. It started when the bankers got there way in the draft of the constitution its self.