My Folha colleague Clovis Rossi recently noted that my colleagues at the Council on Foreign Relations ignored this week’s BRICS summit when assembling the July “World Events Calendar.” Whether an editorial oversight or a conscious omission, the BRICS and BRICS-UNASUR summits are indeed barely on Washington’s radar.
I share the skeptics’ expectation that the meetings may well produce more symbolism than substance. The adage that for a major head of state to just show up is itself the “deliverable” doesn’t exactly demonstrate the political/diplomatic heft of the BRICS, (or, for that matter, of any regional summit).
And who can argue with …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
