Donglang Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/donglang/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 03 Sep 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Donglang Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/donglang/ 32 32 BRICS summit opens with condemnation of North Korean nuclear weapons test https://jjcornish.com/2017/09/brics-summit-opens-condemnation-north-korean-nuclear-weapons-test/ Sun, 03 Sep 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/09/brics-summit-opens-condemnation-north-korean-nuclear-weapons-test/ The BRICS summits opened in Xiamen, China with a declaration condemning the nuclear weapons test by North Korea. The five-nation body, that includes South Africa, has also united startlingly against international terror groups. President Xi Jinping opened the second BRICS summit China’s hosting with a call for members to shelve differences. He and his Indian […]

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]]> The BRICS summits opened in Xiamen, China with a declaration condemning the nuclear weapons test by North Korea.

The five-nation body, that includes South Africa, has also united startlingly against international terror groups.

President Xi Jinping opened the second BRICS summit China’s hosting with a call for members to shelve differences.

He and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi set the example with smiled and handshakes after a recent border dispute in the plateau known as Donglang or Doklam, depending on which side of the border one finds oneself

China’s shelves plans to increase the size of BRICS because of resistance by members to Beijing bringing friendly neighbours into the grouping struggling to retain the economic power it enjoyed when it was formed 15 years ago.

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