Terrorism, coronavirus pandemic on the agenda as BRICS leaders meet

Name: China and India: How economically linked are they?
Uploaded: 2020-11-16T13:50:49.000Z
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Five emerging economies expected to endorse a strategy setting out how they can work together on counterterrorism

Economic recovery and cooperation in public health also likely to be discussed at virtual summit

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The leaders of (from left) South Africa, India, China, Russia and Brazil met in person for last year’s BRICS summit, held in Brasilia. This year, post-pandemic recovery will be on the agenda. Photo: Reuters

Laura Zhou

Published: 9:50pm, 16 Nov 2020Updated: 11:26pm, 16 Nov 2020

Leaders of five major emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – are expected to endorse a counterterrorism strategy when they meet for their annual summit via video link on Tuesday.

Post-pandemic economic recovery and cooperation in public health are also likely to be high on the agenda at the BRICS meeting to be hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Russian embassy in Beijing on Monday said the bloc’s counterterrorism strategy would define how the member countries could work together on measures to prevent people from taking part in terrorist activities and financing terrorism.

Under a working group, each member state has already set up a subgroup to handle a specific area, with Russia in charge of countering foreign terrorist militants and China focusing on radicalisation, according to the embassy.

The new strategy will be the first official document on counterterrorism for the BRICS countries, which together account for about 23 per cent of the world’s economy and 43 per cent of its population.

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China and India: How economically linked are they?

This year’s summit was originally due to be held in St Petersburg in July but was postponed because of the coronavirus crisis, and it comes as the global economy is reeling from the pandemic.