According to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and other foreign media on December 30, Argentina officially announced that it would not join the BRICS. In a letter to Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, the new Argentine far-right Mile said that the decision made at the previous session had been revised and that the timing was not "right" for Argentina to join as a full member.
The Argentine newspaper Page Twelfth commented that Milley's motives were purely ideological rather than pragmatic, and that in his letter he simply stated that "many aspects of the current foreign policy are different from those of the previous one." The BRICS countries are made up of emerging economies that could have provided Argentina with firm political and economic support to deal with the current crisis. And Milley's brief letter means that Argentina has closed one of its biggest gateways to the world.
Page 12 published another article on the 30th, analyzing the impact of Milley's decision.
Jorge Carrera, the former president of the Bank of Argentina**, reportedly believes that this decision is, first of all, a "disrespect" to the efforts to promote Argentina's accession to the BRICS, which is "a big mistake in over-ideologizing international relations and thus putting Argentina's national interests on the back burner." ”
This is a regrettable decision. Gabriel Merino, a researcher at Argentina's National Council for Scientific and Technological Research, believes that this is a typical manifestation of the "extreme ideologization" of foreign policy. He stressed that the BRICS represent a developing emerging world, in contrast to the relative stagnation of most Western countries and the countries of the "Global North".
The "BRICS" originally referred to the four countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China. In 2006, the foreign ministers of Brazil, Russia, India and China held their first meeting, marking the beginning of BRICS cooperation. In December 2010, on the basis of consensus, the four countries formally admitted South Africa to the Mechanism. In August this year, the special press conference of the 15th BRICS Summit announced that Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Iran and Ethiopia would be invited to officially become members of the BRICS family.
According to Bloomberg on December 29, South Africa said that the number of members of the BRICS group, which is made up of emerging market countries, will be doubled, and Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia and Egypt will join on January 1 next year.
South Africa's special envoy for Asia and the BRICS, Anil Sooklal, said in an interview Friday that the five invited countries sent high-level representatives to the BRICS coordinators' meeting in Durban, South Africa, earlier this month, and that they were fully involved in the meeting, "which is a clear indication that they have accepted the invitation." He revealed that the new member states will also send ** to the coordinators' meeting in Moscow on January 30.
Argentina is facing its worst economic crisis in two decades, and with the election of far-right politician Javier Milley, the future of its politics has attracted international attention.
Milley has previously stated that he will refuse to cooperate with China, Brazil and Russia, and instead support strengthening relations with the United States and Israel. Bloomberg called Milley a "political layman" whose campaign was unexpectedly elected Argentina with a radical liberal policy direction and "Trump-esque" rhetoric. But as Milley gradually switched from campaign status to Argentina's first-class status, Bloomberg found that "Milley's tone softened, showing how much Argentina needs China." ”
It is worth noting that after Milley took office, he threw out more than 100 amazing policies, and the people who took to the streets to demonstrate were also wave after wave. According to Agence France-Presse on December 28, local time, on the 27th, thousands of Argentines took to the streets of the capital Buenos Aires due to dissatisfaction with Milley's controversial reform plan.
On December 27, 2023 local time, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, people held a large-scale demonstration against the economic reform policies launched by the new ** Milley. Picture from ic photo
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